For those willing to wait out the oppressive heat and rain, the almanac comes up with a "delightful" September -- then on to October, which will be warmer and wetter than usual.
KUALA LUMPUR — In Malaysia's oppressive heat, torrential rain and extreme humidity, it is not surprising that the circuit in Sepang is itself one of extremes: It has two long straights of nearly a kilometer each followed by tight, slow-speed corners, along with several extremely high-speed corners and the widest sections of track around.
Because of the oppressive heat and rain, the roof isn't likely to be opened for more than a dozen or so games a year, but even when it is closed, there are sweeping views of the city skyline through 60-foot-tall windows.
Construction of the defences occurred mostly at night, although rain, oppressive heat, and cold limited the opportunity to rest.
With a mean surface temperature of 462°C, an oppressive atmosphere, and sulfuric acid rains, it certainly seems to fit biblical descriptions.
"Dry as powder - oppressive duststorm - God give us rain," one wrote in a letter home from Baoding, near Beijing, just a month before his community was wiped out by Boxers.
Texas has suffered from oppressive heat and a lack of rain this year, but for the second time in three starts, Verlander had one of his postseason starts interrupted by it.
Blade Runner, the just-OK movie we've been led to believe is amazing, is set in a terribly oppressive Los Angeles (redundant?), where it's always raining and it's always nighttime.
Speed of Rain is powerfully percussive without being oppressive and features a scintilla of acoustic and a shard of the symphonic, like flicking through a radio dial and briefly alighting on different stations.
Tempering the film's oppressive emotions, the cinematographer Zoë White's exquisite compositions charge leaden rain clouds and rustling branches with eerie life, and dusty indoor corners with shadowy secrets.
But for those of us not under the tent covers, shielded from the steady rain only (and inadequately) by umbrellas, nature was already in oppressive evidence.
