the.com/summer heat
the season proving air can technically be a solid you wade through.
means the seasonal spike in temperature and humidity that turns ordinary life into a slow-motion negotiation with sweat.
from english speakers have complained about it since old english sumor met hætu, both proto-germanic words that basically meant hot enough to complain about.
heat indexhumidity makes 95f feel like 110f
asphalt tempcan hit 60f hotter than the air
first recorded whineancient egyptians tracked it via the nile flood cycle
for instance
death valley 1913 — 134f, hottest reliably recorded air temp on earth
chicago 1995 — heat wave killed over 700 people in a week
europe 2003 — an estimated 70000 deaths across the continent