hot spell
Prolonged summer swelter
A hot spell is a period of unusually hot weather lasting several days or longer: We're in the middle of a hot spell.
The phrase suggests temporary conditions rather than permanent climate—the heat will eventually break.
Compare cold spell.
- dog daysHottest summer weeks
- scorcherExtremely hot day
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- heat advisoryWeather bureau caution about high temperatures
triple digits · wildfire risk · urban heat island · high summer · drought · air conditioning · heatstroke · August · July · endless summer · sauna · sweat it out · cold drink · siesta culture · humid · sticky · fan · blazing
- summersummer, summertime, midsummer, summer solstice, solstice
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, radiation, convection, insulators
- hot weatherheatwaves, heat, scorcher, swelter, humidity
- summer weathersunshine, heat, humidity, scorching heat, sweltering
- temperature changestemperature drop, heat waves, temperature rise, cold snaps, temperature spike
- dog daysheat wave, sweltering, scorching, summer, midsummer
temperature extreme
hot spellcold snap
Brief period of bitter chill
cold spell · cold wave · freeze · deep freeze · cold front
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