LEARN THE LINGO

Feeling hot, hot, hot on your walk? Mix it up with one of these warm words instead…

Swullocking: so stiflingly humid it makes your hair stand on end

Sizzling: hot enough to make you feel you’re frying. Also on the cooking theme – baking, roasting, boiling, broiling

Mungy: humid and muggy, with little sunshine. Can also mean damp and miserable, which is handy if the weather turns

Sudoriferous: sweatinducing (which can then become odoriferous)

Summer colts: shimmering haze near the ground on a hot day, although can refer to a shimmering swarm of midges

Hot gleam: perhaps more typical of an English summer, a ray of warm sunshine between showers

Mooth: sultry if referring to weather; exhausted by heat if referring to a person

Pothery: hot and humid

Vesuviate: very hot, from the Italian volcano