"But it's a dry heat" is an old saw: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69689/yeah-but-its-a-dry-heat-reference-to-another-film https://movies.stackexc

"But it's a dry heat" is an old saw: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69689/yeah-but-its-a-dry-heat-reference-to-another-film https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69689/yeah-but-it... I've been in Cape Town on 40+ Degrees C days. It is dry there in summer. Parent comment about the mountain catching fire is "joking but also true(ish)". There's sea on 3 sides of Cape Town but somehow, the summer heat is bone dry. I suppose it would be worse if it was damp.