What’s the coldest temperature you have ever been in? Plus what is the hottest temperature you have experienced?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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I have been in -7 C(19F) in Tasmania.
Which was cold enough. Car windscreens frozen over, water pipes frozen.
Sun never breaking through the thick fog

The hottest temperature was 47.9C, 118F
I moved from Tasmania to Esperance in Western Australia in 1988
Early December, at 11am the temperature reached 47.9.
Then a massive electrical storm came over the town and by 11.30 the temperature had dropped to 26C.
Coming from Tasmania I had never experiences anything above 35C, 95F.
Plus Tasmania rarely had storms with forked lightning. There was usually only intracloud or sheet lightning.
So when that particular storm was raging I was awestruck. I was at the Esperance wharf and had to go below the
wharf for fear of being struck by lightning.
Example of Perth Electrical storm
 

Ruthanne said:
I believe the actual temperature that was the coldest here was around -10 f which is -23.33 c. The wind chill temperatures have dipped much lower though at maybe -30 f or lower.

The hottest it's been here that I recall has been around 105 f.
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Home heating would be going all day and night?
Perth temperatures regularly go over 100 degrees.
 
Oh, now we have to convert Fahrenheit to Celcius, LOL?

In all seriousness, probably 20 degrees below Zero in Chicago on a business trip. I had to wear thermal underwear under my clothes. 116 degrees in Las Vegas, again on a business trip. But as they say, it is a "dry heat" which really means it is like being in a convection oven. No wonder I'm happy my company "retired" me.
 
In January of 1994, it got down to -30F (-34.5C) and the highest was in the early 80s sometime. We had a string of 100F+ degree days in Kentucky. When I worked in Tijuana, the temps got above 100F most days in the summer and early fall. But like the saying goes... it was a dry heat.
 
Bretrick said:
Dry heat is so much better than humidity
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Yes, it is. I lived in Florida for 40 years. Temps in the 90's (F) were miserable. In Dallas (because it is north in the state and not near the coast) temps over 100 degrees are not so bad.

Actually, it is the same with colder temps. In Florida, when the temps dropped south of 50 degrees it felt bone-chilling. Not so in Dallas.
 

What’s the coldest temperature you have ever been in? Plus what is the hottest temperature you have experienced?​


Coldest;

At the cabin

-37°F
Three days straight

Gets worry some

Kept the pump house heated with a propane stove 24/7

Funny thing, up there in winter, I'd work outside in just a T shirt at 20°F
As long as there was no wind

Heh, a slight breeze at that temp will rip yer face off

Hottest;

Houston
Only in the 90s F but....the humidity........WHOA!
 
The coldest was 10 degrees, when I visited friends in St. George, Utah. I was 23 then & able to tolerate cold. Now, I'm cold when it's under 80.
The hottest was when I was 17 & had an old car with no air conditioning. It was 115. Opening the windows didn't help.
When I was around 9, my mom took me to Las Vegas with her one summer. We got there by train & arrived at 3:00am.
I got off the train & felt a blast of hot air. I thought it was coming from the train's engine, so I walked away, but I still felt it. I realized it was really that hot & windy. I remember looking up at a temp/time display on a building. It said: Time: 3:05am. Temp: 112.
 
I was in a Blizzard north of the Arctic Circle in Norway.

Don't know what the temperature was, too busy trying to stay alive but there was no doubt that it wanted us dead!

Opposite extreme, tell end of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Aden.

It was so hot that we were told to stop work and go to bed.

That didn't happen too often in the military, believe me!
 
1961 or 62 in Sharjah 43C, we could be outside for 20 minutes max
then into an air conditioned room for at least 45 minutes I was in the
Air Force at that time.

1984 in the Falkland Islands -36C, this was the coldest winter that they
had, had for many years.

Both extremes were lethal, but I would prefer the cold, you can cover
up with more clothes, but in the heat you can't really do anything.

Mike.
 
The UK has a fairly temperate climate so we rarely experience extreme highs or lows. On a couple of days some years ago it dropped to -16C here. On rare occasions the temp will hit 30C in summer. I think the coldest prolonged period I knew was when I worked in Amsterdam. We had nearly 8 weels when the temp was around -22C. The canals froze and the trams couldn't run. People skated and played ice hockey on the canals and the 120 mile long skating race " Elfstedentocht" (11 cities tour) took place for the first time in many years.

Not sure about the hottest place, but strangely enough, one very hot day was when Mrs.L and I visited 'Santa Claus village' in Rovaniemi on the Arctic circle in summer. There was Santa in the grey summer clothing in his air conditioned chalet, while Mrs. L and I were wearing T shirts & shorts! It was around 30C that day. We've got the photo to prove it!
 
The hottest has to be around the 95 too 100 degrees F, when we visited The Great Pyramid of Giza. On a winter cruise around the Norwegian Fjords the temperature dropped dramatically, but I can't remember to what level. Wettest, although not mentioned in the thread title. I do remember being in a hired car in Tennessee in a violent rain storm, so heavy was the rain, the wipers couldn't cope, like many others I pulled over. The rain water was running down each side of the road, so high, it was at the height of the car's sills.
 
Trila said:
-31° (actual temp, not wind chill)....in Illinois 1983 or 1984
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I was there! I lived 40 miles north of Chicago in Waukegan. I doubt the car would have started, but I'll never know because the door was frozen shut. Besides, it was so cold I couldn't stay outside for long. I think the air froze in my lungs! That played a part in my move to Kentucky where the winters are quite a bit more moderate.
 
I was a heavy equipment field service mechanic. (hate the word technician), and as such, I worked in some of the worst temps on both sides of the country.
The worst of the east was 1977 in Vermont. the temp. hit a streak of 51 days below freezing, never getting above zero even in the daytime. :eek: Mostly -30 degree's not counting the wind chill. I still remember pulling the heads off a Cat dozer at the end of a runway with the wind just a whipping. (brrrrrrr).
The worst of the west was working in Imperial valley California. Summer temps were always 110+ with lot's of 120's sprinkled in for good measure. That was the air temp, the ground temp was always considerably hotter.


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Coldest -63 F, -53 C. Living near Jackson, Wyoming https://jacksonholemagazine.com/looking-back-again/ . Discovered that propane was liquid, not gas, at that temp.

I now live close to a place in Utah that for odd topography and high elevation gets even colder, don't go there in winter https://climate.usu.edu/PeterSinks/index.php .

Hottest 136 F, 58 C - maybe, that's what the car's thermometer said anyway. I was in the interior Kuwaiti desert at the time, near Iraq. The thermometer was probably inaccurate, but it was hot as hell.
 

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