(a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.

aestival arctic ardent autumn autumnal baking blistering boiling boreal broiling brumal burning burning hot ebullient equinoctial feverish flushed grilling heated hibernal hiemal hot hot as fire hot as hell like a furnace like an oven midsummer midwinter out of season overheated overwarm parching piping hot red-hot roasting scalding scorching searing seasonal seething simmering sizzling hot smoking hot solstitial spring springlike sudorific summer summerlike summerly summery sweating sweaty sweltering sweltry toasting torrid vernal white-hot winter winterlike wintery wintry