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Atmospheric Temperature: As the atmospheric temperature exceeds the body temperature, our body begins to behave like a Microwave, heating us slowly. Well, in such a scenario there is nothing much to do other than look for a cool shelter where there is cooler air like amidst the rocks, some cave or the best option will be water if you are lucky enough to find it.
Heat Absorption: Whenever, any surface is exposed to direct sunlight, it absorbs the heat of the sunlight. Thus this sunlight exposed surface becomes much hotter than the atmospheric heat. All you can do in such a scenario is avoid walking bare foot and try or walk on surfaces which are not directly exposed to sunlight in case you are bare foot. Digging an underneath passage can also be a really effective option.
Sun's Radiation: When you're body is exposed to direct sunlight, it heats up your body completely. It's like standing inside a microwave over. In such scenarios you can avoid your body getting exposed to that direct sunlight by wearing a broad brimmed hat and completely loose fitting light colored clothes so that they don't hug your body by your sweat. In places like the High Andes, you may experience boiling heat of the sun and shivering cold of the shade just inches away from each other.
Speed of Wind: Normally a light breeze will cool you down as it accelerates the speed of evaporation of sweat, however this same wind with some more force can prove to be a blast furnace accelerating your moisture loss beyond control. However, right pair of clothing definitely helps beat the effects of wind.
Metabolic processes of the Body: As the metabolic processes in your body continue to function your body shall generate heat continuously. So the more you work, more heat is generated in your body. The right move to control this is to slow down and relax in your work. If your body is not used to such atmospheric temperatures it is always suggested to go easy on your body and work unless your body gets adapted to the atmosphere, which normally takes a week or so to happen.
Here are a few cute summer quotes, which discuss summer time, and the way different people view the season.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.
James Ballantine
One swallow does not make a summer.
Aristotle
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
