1. The hot spell broke.

2. During the hot spell this summer, Father took us to the lake.

3. But this hot spell can't last long. Probably it will rain tonight and the weather will then be cooler.

4. A hot spell, following a rainy summer, was all the bugs needed to ruin ours.

5. We stayed all day, suffering short drenching showers of rain and drying out in the hot spells in between.

6. The blooms usually occur at the end of the summer if there have been long hot spells and settled weather.

7. At Harwell laboratories, they've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell.

8. Then, in 1998, an El Ni?o episode in the Pacific Ocean set off a record-setting hot spell.