heat wave



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heat wave

A period of time in which the weather is unusually and persistently hot. Our summers are usually very mild here, but we've been in the midst of a heat wave recently that's made it feel like the tropics!
See also: heat, wave

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
SissySIS-eeEnglish
Yu-Chinese
ChastityCHAST-i-teeEnglish
Antoniahn-TAW-nee (Polish), ən-TAW-nee (Catalan)Polish, Catalan
JozefÍNa-Slovak
TalithaTAL-i-thə (English)Biblical