My first summer here my thoughts were: "how do people stand living down here with this constant heat and humidity?" As others have said, you will always find days up north that are worse than down here. However, the big thing that differentiates the climate down here from up north is its consistency - you can count on almost every day from the end of May through September to be in the 90-94 range. There is very little relief.
With that being said, on subsequent summers, I had at least emotionally adapted to it and found that golfing in the afternoons was at least tolerable if not comfortable. You get used to sweating and eventually don't even think about it. The funny thing is that when golfing in that weather, I can go through at least 64 ounces of water, then go to the bar and have two 16 ounce beers and then go home without once having to use the restroom.
The bottom line is that summer is my favorite time of the year down here. The crowds are gone, you can easily get into a restaurant (with lower prices) or movie, get tee times easily, not get caught in traffic. At night it is a pleasure to drive around in your golf cart in the evening with no worry of being chilled. On many nights, nature also provides us with a spectacular light show of distant cloud-to-cloud lightning ... and the sunsets are spectacular.
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