scorching heat
Blistering summer intensity
Scorching heat is extreme, oppressive warmth—the kind that bakes pavement and drives people indoors: We stayed inside during the scorching heat of the afternoon.
The phrase emphasizes intensity beyond ordinary hot weather, suggesting temperatures that feel dangerous or unbearable.
- blazingBurning very brightly
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- burningCombustion in progress
inferno · heatwave · sunburn · desert · dry spell · drought · parched · fiery · furnace · molten · suffocating · oppressive · relentless · dog days · asphalt · mirage · shade · solar flare
- desertsand, sand dunes, sand dune, dune, dunes
- desert climatearid, aridity, hot summers, hot summer, sunshine
- extreme weatherblizzard, hurricane, tornado, typhoon, ice storm
- heatthermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection, insulators
- summer weathersunshine, humidity, heatwave, hot spell, sweltering
- Indian Weathermonsoon rains, monsoon season, loo, nor'wester, norwesters
scorching heatbitter cold
Extremely low temperature
freezing cold · arctic cold · sub-zero temperatures · extreme cold · biting cold
scorching heatmild weather
Moderate atmospheric conditions
temperate climate · gentle warmth · moderate temperatures · crisp air
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