heat haze
Wavy summer air
Heat haze is the shimmering, wavering distortion of air visible above hot surfaces—asphalt roads in summer, desert sand, or flames.
Rising warm air bends light passing through it, creating rippling visual effects that can blur distant objects or produce mirages: The heat haze made the highway look wet.
- light bendingRedirection of rays
- Fata MorganaComplex superior mirage
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- shimmeringGleaming with wavering light
- refractionWave bending between media
hot · scintillation · distortion · thermal inversion · sunlight · midday sun · illusion · looming · warm · blacktop · desert vistas · atmospheric · optical · noon · swelter · ripple · humid · desert
- tricks of the lightmirage, glare, lens flare, shimmer, reflection
- miragesdesert mirage
- desertsand, sand dunes, sand dune, dune, dunes
- summersummer, summertime, midsummer, summer solstice, solstice
- desertsSahara, Gobi, Mojave, Namib, Kalahari
- light effectsshine, glow, gleam, shimmer, glitter
temperature-induced phenomena
heat hazefrost
Thin ice coating
ice fog · cold snap · hoarfrost · winter chill · arctic air
heat, heated, hazy, haze, heating, reheat, heats, preheat, overheated