The State Climate Office of North Carolina’s latest blog post discusses the 2017 year to date and gives some insight into what might happen the rest of the year.  While the summary statistics are just for North Carolina, the general trends are the same for the whole Southeast and the five questions they are asking are also broadly applicable to the region.  You can read their post at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=237&h=5666e5c1.