11 Pictures That Will Cool You Down in Summer

Children cool off from summer heat under a pavement spray outside a Connecticut firehouse.

A boy helps his friend get a drink of water in the warm Wisconsin August.

With the help of young Walter Volk, construction worker Louis Adesso cools down during the August heat in Manhattan of 1947—a record-breaking year for both summer heat and winter snows.

Train examiner Henry Cox finds a reprieve with a beer in Cook, Australia. Until the mid 1990s, the train Cox worked on was a lifeline for remote towns, hauling provisions and mail across the outback.

A prisoner working in the heat on a Mississippi prison farm.

A Tuareg family naps in the shade, avoiding the heat of the day near Timbuktu, Mali. In recent years, droughts in the country increased in both frequency and severity.

A man holds tight as his Paso Fino horse rears in the oceans off the western coast of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

A child of the Untouchables caste—a hereditary sentencing of the lowest order—sleeps, cooled by the breeze of a fan in India.

A 14-month old female tiger dips her paws in the Patpara Nala watering hole of Bandhavgarh National Park in India.

Women pause to enjoy a refreshing mist on a boardwalk in Paris, France.

A single yard sprinkler is all that’s needed for an afternoon of fun for these Maryland siblings.