But the winds also drive away the mosquitoes, and break through that solid wall of summer heat.
This summer we have been absolutely bombarded with stories about the summer heat wave in the United States.
The samba-dancing crowd filled the streets of Rio's business district and some passed out under the summer heat.
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This was, after all, the year of the epic summer heat wave, the hottest August ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.
It's late, but the summer heat is strong and hangs in the air.
Mrs Zia chuckles that she will go after Delhi's summer heat is past.
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But the official rollout, involving real people and not relatively motivated beta-testers, comes with the worst summer heat still ahead.
Young and old, men and women worked from sun up to sun down, through the summer heat and bitterly cold winter.
The usual blistering summer heat in Lahore was accompanied by the heat of an angered nation lashing out against its neighbour.
For one thing, cubicle jobs usually mean you don't have to spend your day outside fighting the summer heat or winter chill.
The movement seems to be growing daily, despite the torrid summer heat.
Honeymooners take photos against backdrops of blossoms, and visitors escaping the summer heat of the plains relish in the prospect of fresh fruit.
She spent the weekend demonstrating proper pivoting techniques, surveying matches, swatting flies, and sweating in the Senegalese summer heat with aspiring basketballer players.
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Donkin says the intense summer heat could make visits to their home grounds in Perpignan, Narbonne and Figueres in northern Spain a daunting prospect.
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Australia has been gripped by a summer heat wave with near-record temperatures and the action of court is promising to be just as hot.
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But how many of Dubai's 1.6m people will give up their 1m air-conditioned cars to walk even short distances in the punishing summer heat?
But the summer heat and crowds of Venice are escaped by the Olympic-sized swimming pool that despite its size, feels hidden away in the gardens.
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Saddam Hussein Altakriti is like Baghdad's summer heat: omnipresent and omnioppressive.
The decomposition of Williams' body was hastened by the fact it was in a top floor apartment, where the temperature soared in the summer heat.
Lawrence, 34, best known for his starring role in the FOX television series "Martin, " was jogging in the summer heat while wearing multiple layers of clothing.
Even in low-lying Iraq, British forces found that their Lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.
Due to the subtropical summer heat and the pollution that blows down from the factories on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong is a punishing place to run.
In many remote villages, volunteers dug bodies from the wreckage and buried them in mass graves without proper religious ceremonies, fearing the spread of disease in the summer heat.
Mr Blix accepts that the military force built up to pressure Iraq into admitting the inspectors, once at full strength, could not be held indefinitely through the summer heat.
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The decline was the third consecutive drop and follows a more than 20 percent decrease in the previous year's study, which also blamed the storms as well as summer heat.
But while the neon yellow Club Monaco pants or the Tom Ford lavender suit might throw off many, there are plenty of other ways to look cool in the summer heat.
According to a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, tourism has been on the upswing this year, thanks in part to the early and sustained summer heat blanketing the Eastern seaboard.
In an effort to stem the annual exodus of people fleeing the summer heat of this shopping mecca in the Gulf, the city's planners have trawled the world for some bizarre attractions.
As temperatures soared across the US this week we brought you five eco gadgets to beat the summer heat, and we also learned that solar panels have a cooling effect on buildings.
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