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Offers a look at hot weather conditions in New York City. Claim that humidity makes people grumpy; Opinion that people get into bad moods when they begin to sweat; Stories of city workers; Claim that the heat can make people angry at each other.

The heat wave that gripped the city in late July is turning out to have been a fairly deadly one. Fourteen people are now certified to have died of weather-related hyperthermia, combined with other medical conditions, from July 22 to July 25, the city medical examiner's office said Wednesday. Five more died of the heat in August, bringing the total for the summer to 19. The dead included a 10-year-old girl in Brooklyn and a 97-year-old woman in the Bronx who both succumbed on July 23, when the temperature hit 100 degrees, as well as a 48-year-old Manhattan woman who died on July 25, when the heat wave finally broke after nine straight days with highs of 89 degrees or above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]