I've been running equipment in outdoor enclosures for years in the Dominican Republic with few problems. This works for us:
I've used metal boxes, gasketed or just raintight. I'd be concerned about plastic warping with time and leaking water on the radios.
Shade the box from direct sun, ours have had solar panels above, but sheet metal should work fine.
Drill lots of ventilation holes, in the floor and on the wall near the top. The upper holes should be well shielded from the rain (think about wind), again with sheet metal.
In one critical installation I've put in a small fan, with a thermostat set at 110 degrees. It probably wasn't necessary, but we've been to that hilltop only four times in five years.
Note that this is with Cisco and FreeWave gear, which is probably a lot more temperature-tolerant than Linksys; you might consider better radios if reliability is important.
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