It's only usually bad though the bad heat, the rest of the time it's not too bad. We use to get our traditional summer storms but everything is changing, we did a get a few more this last summer than we have had previously but once upon a time it was normal to have afternoon storms on most days through summer. Some summers (more recently) we can have weeks without much at all. This year we had 1 or 2 for most weeks which was really good!! We needed it!