The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Some of the tall mountains keep their snow until the last hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

(LOVIN' SPOONFUL - "SUMMER IN THE CITY") Even though it was hot, Sly and the Family Stone still found ways to have fun in the summertime.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

They sang: "Hot town,summer in the city.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Months later,the plants are thriving in an uncommonly hot British summer.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09