Hard to fully quantify how much "better" the weather has been because its usually so freakin' gorgeous here, but this year our "monsoon" season has officially started two weeks earlier than "normal". It has been cooler and wetter in June which is typically our hottest, driest month.
After a ten year megadrought of epic proportions that started in the late 90's, three out of the five years have been average or above for precip, so who knows what to think.
But the first two weeks of May were the second hottest and driest since they started keeping records which here has been a long time.
I think the key thing to remember is that the predictability is being affected, the fluctuations and extremes will tend to be worse and there really isn't much anybody can do about it.
We had some very cold nights and well spaced snows during the last winter which seems to have benefited us in killing off our area's worst pest, grasshoppers. They are not bad this year at all.
The genie left the bottle a while ago and just recycling bottles and newspapers ain't gonna put her back in.