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Outdoors Overview: Distress is from heat and humidity
Jerry Davis
Giving this weather a different label, torrid for example, instead of continuing to pronounce it’s not the heat but the humidity, adds a degree of unfamiliarity to what we are coping with these days. In some little way it becomes unfamiliar, out of mind, and maybe provides a touch of relief.