And for the record

because I said "I'm from San Diego and I hate the heat," and someone said "yeah it must be terrible to be 70 degrees and balmy," I present (you'll have to click through to full size) last year's August weather.

Iowa City:

Poway:

Unless you're actually, literally, on a beach, it's a desert.  It didn't look like this outside my window

it looked like this