Claiming it's not been spring-like because you live lakeside is like claiming it's chilly in a 75 degree house while standing in front of the refridgerator/freezer with the door open. 95% will feel otherswise.
What is the particular surface-satellite aggregation used to determine the long term trend in the Niño 3.4 region? I ask this because since 1979, neither NOAA-STAR, RSS, or the UAH interpolations for the tropical Pacific depict much (if any) warming over the tropical pacific or Niño 3.4 region since the beginning of the satellite era. Personally, I'm weary of using surface-based datasets to gauge SSTs (on an exact basis) before the ARGO-era.