Having lived in a hot humid climate all my life I have never understood cooking out on the 4th of July. Christmas seems more appropriate.
Where I used to work we had these "Team Days" where we would all go out to some park and have a cook out and then do these really really dumbass "Team Building" exercises.
Anyway they always did them in the goddamned summer, which is about 7 or 8 months long in Central Florida. And it would be hot as Hell and you would sit there with the sweat popping out of your forehead like BB's and running out of your armpits down your sides, while you tried to swat the flies away from your food.
Then one year they scheduled it in November. Now it can be pretty warm in November in Central Florida, but that year a cold front blew in the day before team day and the afternoon high was in the 60's. And everybody remarked how Fucking-A awesome it was and how we should always have team day this time of year.
But next year we had it in August and from then on it went back to always being scheduled in the summer.