high summer

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Many of the host cities are accustomed to high summer temperatures.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The survey was part of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to identify neighborhoods with really high summer heat levels.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023

Fall colors offer just as much vibrancy for nature lovers as the greens and blues of high summer, and lines dissipate at museums like waves receding at low tide.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2023

A study reported on by The Washington Post said that if power were cut off in high summer, half the city’s population would require hospitalization and 13,000 would die.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

So high summer came to Phippsburg that year, and it promised to be the hottest anyone could remember—just like every other summer.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt