Joe, we have been in a long drought as travis mentioned, but we had more snow than normal this winter, so things are looking up.
During the summer, we do get hot spells once in a while, but anything in the high 90's is somewhat unusual.
We are over a mile closer to the sun which does make a difference....sunburns can happen quickly because of the thinner atmopsphere too.
Some evenings it doesn't cool down all that much, so midnight walks in shorts aren't uncommon.
Before the drought, it would rain every afternoon after about 3 pm. Hopefully, that will return. Street flooding has been a problem in the past though.
The thing we have to watch out for are the dreaded hail storms! When I drive to shows I take a padded car cover to help a little should I get caught out in one.
One year we had baseball sized hail stones that just beat the heck out of everything.
Oh yeah, we have tornadoes here too!