Sentences with phrase «stretches of summer heat»

To me, strawberries symbolize the epitome of those last stretches of summer heat.

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It is a moonless night, dark and rare, and the heat is oppressive, the kind of heat where a deep breath leaves you unsatisfied, suspicious that there was nothing life - giving at all in what you've inhaled, and you are left air - hungry, wet at the pits, forehead greasy with sweat, wishing for the night to be over, for your daughters to exhaust their energy, to cool their dense, hot centers enough to sleep for one more night in this summer that seems to stretch into your future like a planetary ring full of debris, circling forever around something it can't escape.

Yesterday, several ice experts, including William Chapman of the University of Illinois, Marika Holland at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Walt Meier at the Boulder ice center, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this summer.

While the De Bilt weather station near Utrecht recorded a high of «only» 95 ° F (35 ° C), 6 1,000 to 1,400 more people died from the heat than in an average summer, and the two - week stretch of extreme heat in August claimed 400 to 500 lives.6