hot weather tent

Frankly, I think the most comfortable tent for your conditions would be:

An air conditioned motel room!

Otherwise, you're gonna be hot. The best you can do is look for something double-walled, so you can use the net inner alone if it's not slated to rain. Pray for a breeze.

I would go with the patrol tarp and inner combo. You can stake it high to get good airflow but you should still be well protected if need be.

A hammock would be coolest. But the FL. state parks don't let you tie anything to trees do they?

Even double-walled tents get really hot as soon as the sun hits them. If you are hoping to sleep in, I'd figure out where the sun will rise in the morning and put a tarp between the rising sun and my tent to create some solid shade on the tent.

In other states, I'd say "camp on a north-facing slope", but I've been to every county in FL and to the state's highest point (345 feet), so I know that really doesn't apply.

Locus Gear were theatening to release version of their mid in mirrored cuben. That might keep the sun out…

Or maybe you could drape one of those not-entirely-flimsy AMK survival blankets over the sunny side of a normal shelter, silver side out. Make tie outs on it with tape.

I left FL in '88. Never regretted that decision. Where do you hike there?

I think you need more than a hot weather tent. You need a hot and humid tent. I prefer a large open tarp so that you get the benefit of any air movement you might have. You can either live with the bugs or get a head net or StS pyramid net if the mosquitoes are just too bad. Put permithrin on your sleep clothes.

We've successfully used a net tent/tarp combo in the Australian tropics. Can leave the tarp off if no rain expected, or pitch high if it is. The more spacious the better – something the size of say BPWD 2.5 net tent has a more airy feel than a smaller version. Otherwise something like Tarptent's SS2 where all tent doors can be opened at once.

I used my Tarptent Moment in January in Florida and it was very nice. There are actually some great hikes on the Florida Trail in the Suwanee area, challenging terrain believe it or not.

For the summer months I did nothing but a bug net tent and a silk sheet, otherwise I sweated to death and never slept at all.