A Heat Like an Affliction

"That morning and noon had been warm, though the stirrings of a feeble breeze made weather not flagrantly intemperate; but at about three o'clock in the afternoon there came out of the southwest a heat like an affliction sent upon an accursed people, and the air was soon dead of it."
--Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

So how's the weather where you are? ;-)