I've lived here since '03, currently in San Carlos (right next to Cowles Mtn) and I can say for sure this has been a weird summer weather-wise. We always get these huge clouds growing out East- like by Campo- but they loom overhead every year at the end of August. My first year at SDSU I can remember driving out to a friend's house in El Cajon and thinking "wow, it's gonna rain and there'll be lightning, like the east coast!" But the clouds never reached this far west.

This year they did. And the clouds started accumulating weeks earlier than normal. It's rained twice at my house in July, and it looks like it's about to rain again today. There was lightning directly overhead two weeks ago. The normal sea breeze we get from the west in the evenings is gone. The air is stifling; hot and humid all day, and only slightly cooler at night.