I remember it being much hotter in May and June fifty years ago. The heat was intense at times.
I moved to my current location in 1972 and we had some amazingly hot weather the next few years with a couple of winters when people were saying that except for three or four nights they could have gotten along okay with no heat! Deer hunters were moaning about having to wipe sweat while sitting on a stand in December! One year the first week of May was like a heat wave in July or August. On the other hand the winter of ‘73 was absurd, with among other things, two feet of snow in parts of South Carolina which normally have very few nights of frost, it was seventeen inches deep where I live.
On November 1, 2014, “the hottest year on record”, South Carolina broke a record for the earliest snow that had stood for 125 years with much of the state covered in snow three weeks before the average date of the first frost in many areas. Who really believes that a year that saw snow along the northern border of Georgia less than one hundred miles from the Atlantic ocean on November one is the hottest year on record?