*%@!&?! Hot

Brendan Buhler with a weather story (thanks, Richard): It's hot. Very hot, darn hot, eye-stinging hot. One hundred sixteen degrees hot. So hot sweat evaporates before it soaks through clothes, a hot that's both a temperature and a judgment, the pillar of salt kind - just unbelievably hot.



Hot hot.



But really, how hot is that?



Hot enough to send a reporter to the airport to witness people getting their first taste of The Hot and ask them how it makes them feel.



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