Yup some places have blistering cold, some have blistering heat. Think I would enjoy some of the cold while hunting versus all the skeeters/ gnats for most of the season. All I hear most days in the woods is bzzzzz, bzzzzzz, bzzzzzz.
Looks like a juvenile rat snake but we also have pygmy rattlers here and have seen a few with a lighter shade of red so I wont take any chances this time of the year. Snakes are all moving around and trying to get some sun in the daytime.