torrid heat

The reddish, stony and parched ground, radiated the torrid heat of the sun that was westerning behind the hills.

It was summer time when I first went there, under brilliant sunshine and in torrid heat.

A touch of approaching winter was upon it, and from the blue, unclouded sky the sun no longer shot down rays of torrid heat.

How could people live out in the open, and work in the mines, or pursue any out-of-door employment in such torrid heat?

The dry torrid heat was exhausting, and the ship with its idle sails made but little way across the quiet sea.