Sentence examples for heat spell from inspiring English sources

(The heat spell at the end of last month came close, topping out at 89 degrees).

A heat spell in the East and Texas helped lift natural gas prices.

To this heat spell, Mr. Gonzales sees only one ultimate solution.

Josh Wetzstein, 27, a waiter at a Midtown restaurant, believes that as the heat spell stretches out, tempers become shorter.

The fund also paid off a nagging $504 bill from Consolidated Edison, which arose when the family ran the air-conditioner during a heat spell shortly after arriving.

The LIPA chairman, Richard M. Kessel, said that Long Island came "extremely close to blackouts" during a four-day heat spell in early July.

Extra dressers will be in the wings to help with quick changes, as some mothers-to-be aren't exactly nimble at this point; there will be extra electric fans, to quell hormonal heat spells.

B. Kamins's Baby Boomer Menopause Skin Cream promises to replace nutrients like vitamin E and polysaccharides that are supposedly lost through aging, and soothe skin irritated by heat spells ($102 at www.bkamins.com).

If you look at the temperature of the earth from month to month, it bounces up and down as seasons change and heat spells or cold snaps come and go.

A more recent set of studies has focused on excessive mortality related to heat spells in major cities (Bridger and Helfand 1968; Oechsli and Buechley 1970; Ellis 1972; Ellis et al. 1975; Weiner 1984; Kalkstein and Davis 1989; World Health Organization 1990; Kalkstein 1991).

I prefer the term "global weirding," coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, because the rise in average global temperature is going to lead to all sorts of crazy things — from hotter heat spells and droughts in some places, to colder cold spells and more violent storms, more intense flooding, forest fires and species loss in other places.