Geysers are hot springs heated by magma deep below the surface of Earth.
Countless people wore sun hats against a spring heat wave and dark glasses concealing tears.
His is speaking over the throb of the air-conditioners, as an unprecedented spring heat warms up the Lahore trees outside his home.
"Last night the spring peepers were shouting in chorus," Hall writes, before going on an alliterative bender, "pulsing like crickets in summer, but with spring music, with a shivery shimmer, as though the head-heavy snowdrops were swinging, ringing, or like distant sleighbells, like the last dissipating ghost of the Christmas season, yielding to spring heat, spring love".
A 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy drowned yesterday afternoon when a group of friends trying to escape the record-setting spring heat skipped school for a swim in the frigid waters at a Brooklyn shorefront park, where they were swept away by treacherous currents, the authorities said.
The unusual spring heat -- a huge, humid air mass from the Midwest that was expected to linger until Wednesday -- felled about 40 people with dehydration and exhaustion on a five-borough bicycle tour of New York, while 40,000 other cyclists survived the 42-mile ordeal by pausing along the way to gulp gallons of water and get doused by kindly strangers with garden hoses.
In the stifling spring heat, they were a useful comfort from which to while away the steamier hours of the day.
Low-elevation populations evolved an early flowering strategy that adapts them to spring heat and drought (Wolfe and Tonsor 2014).
The old stone cottage has never been on-grid and since its conversion to a holiday cottage, electricity is supplied by a wind turbine, while water from a nearby spring is heated by solar panelling.
However, the temperature of the water has risen dramatically, possibly due to drought conditions that have staved off flow of cool water that normally mixes with the springs' geothermally heated groundwater, forest spokeswoman Amy Baumer said.
