Vinyl Skylights
Modern skylights often have vinyl seams to help maintain a comfortable temperature indoors whatever the climate outside. Vinyl sealed windows are more suitable to damper, colder situations where they provide good insulation against the weather. The seams don’t offer much protection, however, if you live in a hot climate. Glass is glass and, in glaring sunlight it will always produce a lot of heat. One way to cut down on this is to have tinted sklight windows.
Another way to reduce that amount of heat coming into your room is to fit automatic blinds. They you can block out all or some of the rays with a simple flick of a switch.
If you prefer the more traditional look of wood trimmed skylights you do not have to give up to added efficiency of vinyl since since wooden frames can easily be fitted around the modern skylights to give a more traditional feel.