hot pavement
Sun-baked street surface
Hot pavement is asphalt or concrete that has absorbed heat from the sun, becoming dangerously warm to bare feet or animal paws.
The phrase often appears in summer safety warnings: Don't walk your dog on hot pavement—it can burn their pads.
Hot pavement also radiates heat back into the air, contributing to urban heat islands.
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- burningCombustion in progress
- summerYear's warmest season
- dog daysHottest summer weeks
- barefootWearing no shoes
hot foot · sizzling · blacktop · heat · tar · scorching · blistering · sunbaked · street · sidewalk · parking lot · melting · radiating · shimmer · mirage · frying · fried egg · concrete
- urban heatheat island, heat islands, heat absorption, hot spots, surface temperature
- Unpleasant Sensationsloud noises, bitter taste, body odor, rotten smell, sticky hands
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection