hottest day
Summer's scorching apex
The hottest day is the day with the highest temperature in a given period—a week, a summer, a year, or recorded history: Yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far.
The phrase often appears in climate discussions and weather reports, sometimes with apocalyptic overtones: Scientists warned it was the hottest day ever recorded.
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- heatwaveProlonged abnormally high temperatures
- heat advisoryWeather bureau caution about high temperatures
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- record-breakingExceeding prior bests
heat index · August · sunburn · pavement · melting · humid · blazing · thermometer · shade · drought · heat exhaustion · sweating · oppressive · sizzling · air-conditioning · cold shower · dehydration · summer
- climate recordshighest temperature, lowest temperature, glacier retreat, ocean temperature
- weather recordsall-time high, temperature record, snowfall record
- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
temperature extremity
hottest daycoldest day
Most frigid date recorded
record low · deep freeze · cold spell · cold snap · freeze
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