"torrid heat" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe extreme heat. For example: The torrid heat of the desert made it difficult to do anything but take shelter in the shade.
The torrid heat mixed with car fumes suffocates.
Sharapova, who endured the worst of the torrid heat in her second-round match, beat Alize Cornet 6-1, 7-6 (6) to reach the fourth round.
— Alessio Mineo, Manhattan It is a pitiful sight oft seen in these days of torrid heat: The unsuspecting tourist in her cork wedge is trapped mid-stride by the scourge of licorice-colored tar pits that plague our underground subway platforms.
After two days spent in air-conditioned hotel rooms in Egypt and Israel, prodding Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas on settlements, Mrs. Clinton traveled through the torrid heat of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley on Thursday, getting an on-the-ground view of the thorny issues, like borders and security, which have made Middle East peace such an elusive quest.
One such report, on the national news agency ANSA, said, "Maria seems to be holding up well after 14 days on hunger strike, and today at noon, in the torrid heat of Rome, she arrived at St. Peter's, crossed the piazza briskly, went around the obelisk, walked up the steps of the basilica and went into the church," in spike heels no less, the report noted.
America's paid and volunteer firefighters, working in 32,000 fire departments across the country, put their health and safety at risk fighting blazes in the dead of night, the torrid heat of summer and the frigid cold of winter.
I remember thinking that it looked, in the middle of the torrid summer heat, as if snow were falling on Beirut.
This is after we've been standing in the long, snaking customs line for over an hour in the torrid Cancún heat.
They were fighting for their lives.Suddenly, out of the torrid summer heat and domestic political wrangling, a sense of military tension is palpable in the air.
And if the performance was too long, the front row famous, like Catherine Deneuve and Inès de la Fressange, were happy to sweat out the torrid July heat.
A clean-up campaign launched by the government three years ago has made little progress.A similar outbreak in the torrid summer heat of 2007 became a national scandal.
