1.   Asked if the stifling humidity in Tulsa was a hindrance, Jaidee shook his head.

2.   But the stifling humidity of Houston summers is absent here.

3.   Heat and stifling humidity will persist Monday from the southern Plains across the Mississippi Valley into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.

4.   The stifling humidity, the cockroaches, geckoes and toads.

5.   But while temperatures were predicted to fall, stifling humidity was expected to increase.

6.   Cities like Chicago are much more prepared to deal with a foot of snow than with triple-digit heat and stifling humidity.

7.   High temperatures and stifling humidity cause food to spoil and sanitary conditions to worsen.

8.   Last week pre-monsoon rains brought some relief to Karachi, but the heat has returned, coupled with stifling humidity, the meteorological office said.

9.   He was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration in the stifling Brisbane humidity.