bone-dry

That includes telling people to stay out for a week or two when the foliage is bone-dry and another hellish heat wave appears in the weather forecast.

The joke, of course, is that six decades after that episode aired, the prospect of a bone-dry city soaring to 110 degrees is no longer an imaginary horror.

In Mudzi district in northern Zimbabwe, a community and their livestock are gathered on a bone-dry riverbed.

Those bone-dry grasses are fodder for explosive wildfire growth when paired with above-average temperatures and strong winds.

At the pole the cold air is even more stable than it is in the bone-dry Atacama Desert, he notes.