In the heat of the summer water vapor swells into the atmosphere. It pushes in between and wraps itself around the nitrogen and oxygen molecules filling every breath with sticky warmth. The air becomes heavy in the lungs which labor to pull the precious oxygen from the water. The vapors brush over the skin leaving a steamy residue that coaxes sweat from the pores, each tiny orifice oozing in response to the wet heat.
If you go outside to work under the sweltering sun you are soon dripping with a salty response to summer's insistent embrace. You skin begins to cling to your shirt, pants, and even to itself. Before long streams and rivers of sweat will coat your entire body, wrapping you in dripping sticky warmth. A trickle from your brow will move slowly down your nose, hang there as if summoning courage before it falls helplessly to the ground.
The only respite from this sticky grasp is even more moisture. Sometimes it takes weeks of slow accumulation. Sometimes it builds exponentially and with astonishing speed. But sooner or later the water builds into such furious and savage intensity that it can no longer hold itself aloft. It billows into monstrous clouds standing miles high, broad and bulbous - blackened from the strain of their weight and clenching the rains back. These clouds roll across the heavens, inside them vibrating water releases such quantities of electrical force that great bolts of lighting reach out and licking amongst the clouds. The lighting stretches great forked tongues scorching the earth with peals of thunder can only be designed to knock your very heart from its cage of ribs.