well, some over here cope just fine...and some don't.(and in Philadelphia, there have been many deaths due to heat!)...and in Seattle, it has been cool and damp a lot...this is a BIG place...(We in Wash. D.C. have been pretty hot, but we expect it, and the A.C. runs most of the day...)

and as to beer...*grin*...good beer is meant to be just cool...cheap stuff has to be ice cold to be tolerable at all...much good English ale is wasted if you ice it too much...