A southern Summer can simply wipe you out if you aren’t official with how to deal with them. However, the upside of that is a trade off worth making. During the 4 months of Summer, the heat is brutal. However, once it’s over, the next 8 months are nearly as perfect as weather can get. Having lived where the Heating plus A/C gas furnace ran for more than 6 months out of the year, I will make that trade everyday. I also truly enjoy the Heating plus A/C heat pump to having to deal with a gas furnace or any other type of heating method. I guess that the heat pump will do more when it comes to taking care of the chill during the middle of our Winter. Granted, those hot plus cold temperatures rarely get below freezing. Even at that point, the heat pump makes our apartment super cozy. It just blows our mind how it does this. You see, all the Heating plus A/C heat pump does differently in the Winter is changes direction. By that I mean when the thermostat is switched to heating, the heat pump simply reverses the refrigerant flow. Honestly, that’s all that happens. The heat pump helps cool the apartment by removing heat energy from the apartment plus exhausting it outside. So when it’s time for heat, it reverses flow plus pulls heat energy from the outside air plus brings it inside. It doesn’t need any other assistance until the temps dip to 40 or lower. When that happens, there is an electric grid which produces extra warming to supplement the heat energy the heat pump grabs from outside. It entirely is a wonder.