Warmest and Coldest Temps you've experienced

[TZ]

Seeing these threads about the real cold in the Midwest made me think about this. Having never lived farther north than DC/Cincinnati or in a desert I'm sure I'm not got either the highest or lowest temps.
Lowest...back in the late eighties around the time of Reagans second inagural...I was out waiting for a bus in temps of about -2 or -3 below zero with windchill of close to -20. For warmest, I think it was a day in Aruba at 105 degrees. (Aruba is a desert climate basically) in OCTOBER.

What are yours and where?

[HopeHoops]

1. I can tell you the biggest net change - 80 degrees.

I left NH one January when the wind chill was -20. I got on a plane at Logan (Boston) and landed in Tampa where it was 60 degrees. I was walking around in a short-sleeve shirt and everyone else was wearing a coat. Fortunately, I knew to dress in layers. That's a net 80 degree difference!

[TZ]

4. Wow!

Talk about a shock to the system..:wow:

[fishwax]

15. I had a similar experience last year

Woke up early in the morning in central Illinois where it was about -5 or -10 (actual temperature, not windchill) and flew to Phoenix, where it was in the 60s or 70s. (Then drove up to the Grand Canyon, where it was in the low 40s :))

[struggle4progress]

29. We had diurnal changes of 60 or 70 degrees in the high California desert when I lived there

120 in the fields during the day, rather cool at night

[struggle4progress]

32. The temperature in North Texas can drop 50 or more in a few hours when an arctic front blows through

I remember decades ago driving around on a nice day -- the temperature was near 70, and then suddeenly it was below 20 and I was having trouble keeping the windshield clear of ice

[Retired AF Dem]

64. Not bad

I was visiting my grandparents in Tampa during Christmas break in 73. I flew out of Tampa it was +75, when I landed in Chicago it was -10.

[EndersDame]

2. warmest 121 F coldest probably about 20f maybe 18 f

I much prefer the heat!

[Ptah]

3. -40 f in Montana, 118 f in Arizona

[av8rdave]

8. Exact same numbers for me, but

My -40 was in Edmonton

[Ptah]

31. Montana is actually South Alberta.

:silly:

[Brickbat]

5. It hit -35 or thereabouts a couple years ago here in Northeastern Minnesota. The wind chill was

something sick like -60. I dunno what the hottest is, maybe 100+ in Omaha in summer? I dislike hot weather and while -35 is pretty bad, I'd take it over living anywhere south of 40 degrees north.

[Roon]

12. That's about how cold it was when I was unloading my trailer in the cities

No gloves,in the cold..got frostbite of course. Ironically was unloading rolls of insulation.

It was so cold that day I drove to Omaha next and it was 0 degrees. That 0 felt really good!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. -35 in Minneapolis; +112 in Pierre, SD.

I'll take the cold any day.

[TZ]

10. 112 in SOUTH DAKOTA?

Yikes. I guess living on the East Coast and relatively near the ocean does have a moderating effect on temps....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Oh, yeah. It gets hotter than blazes on the plains in the summer.

We were traveling through SD on the way to Montana for a vacation in Glacier Park, and it was so damn hot and dry that even though we were going through water and soda by the gallon, nobody had to stop for a bathroom break for like 10 hours. No A/C in the car; just hot air blowing in the windows.

[Odin2005]

34. It got up to barely 110 in Fargo a couple years ago.

We had several weeks of REALLY hot weather. It was AWFUL!!! At least it wasn't that humid.

[sarge43]

7. Factoring for wind chill and heat index

Warmest: 110F, TX

Coldest: -45F, NH

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. +120's numerous times and places in CA. -40 once in Janesville, WI. n/t

[Roon]

13. 107 is the warmest here in Denver.

We had a "brown out" that day and it was weird how the light bulbs and other appliances acted.

My best friends son was born that day.

[Kali]

14. they said it was minus 70 once when I was in Fairbanks AK

but not sure - that may have been wind chill? it was painful, I remember that - maybe it was minus 17 and I heard wrong, but that seems "warmer".

Been in over 120 lots of times. Grew up in Phx metro area. Still 90 plus mega humidity in a few places is way harder to take.

[abq e streeter]

20. may very well have been -70

Never been there, but dated someone quite a few years ago who was from there and she said actual air temps in the -50's and even -60's were not unheard of. Told me stuff like that you could spit and it was solid ice by time it hit the ground.( Took her word for it)

[Kali]

22. that is what stuck in my brain all these years

but in my old age I have noticed that memory and reality sometimes diverge:rofl:

[meow2u3]

16. I've lived in 4 states

The coldest temperature I've ever experienced was when I was a kid in New York-- -1 Fahrenheit. The hottest was in Texas, 1998: high temps were in the 110's for over a month in July!

[fishwax]

17. -35/40 in Wyoming; 110 in Oklahoma

[Gormy Cuss]

18. 114 and -25 or so.

The 114 was a dry heat, not that it matters much when it's that hot. Inland California.
I walked to school in -20 weather more than once although it usually stayed above -10 in the coldest part of winter. Coastal Maine.

[abq e streeter]

19. 122 in Ludlow Cal. (west of Needles which was only 119 that day)...-27 in Chicago

with 35 MPH winds off of Lake Michigan , which was only about 3 blocks away; I think the wind chill was in the -60's.

[GoCubsGo]

30. Just about the same range here...

The high was 121 F in the Yucatan. The low was probably your same low, only I was abut 20 miles away from the lake. The wind chill only reached about -48 F out there.

[quakerboy]

70. Thats the same area i hit my high temp

I do not understand why anyone would live out there. There is nothing I can think of that would drive me to that.

[elleng]

21. Mon, Jan 21, 1985,

Was that day of reagan's inaugural? Lived in DC, and walked between ob/gyn office > apt. at SW waterfront, wearing old fur coat of my mother's. Daughter born Jan. 22, next day, her DUE DATE!

OMG, she's almost 25!!!!

[surrealAmerican]

23. The hottest was probably only about 105 F ...

... in St. Augustine when I was a kid. The coldest was -50 F, in western NY state. I remembered hearing that at that temperature you could spit and have it freeze before it hit the ground, but I was too cold to unwrap the scarf from my face to try it.

[pokerfan]

24. 123 in Saudi Arabia, -35 in Montana

[BOSSHOG]

25. 130 degrees Saudi Arabia

Do not recall the coldest. Anything below 50 is cold to me.

[Darth_Kitten]

26. over - 50 degrees celsius (with windchill)

brrrr....

[hobbit709]

27. -51° and +116°

Straight temps, no chill factor or heat index.
N.Dakota in Jan. and TX in Aug.

[MilesColtrane]

28. -6 and 113, both in Ft. Worth, Texas.

The high was during the summer of 1980, when we had 69 days over 100 degrees, 42 of those days were consecutive.

It was like living in Hell.

[abq e streeter]

36. this is off the subject, but if you're still in Dallas/Fort Worth, or were for a long time

and a pro musician ( horn player I assume?), you may know an old NM friend and former mid-80's bandmate (sax player), from Texas originally, who' s been back in DFW area playing ( and writing about) jazz for at least about 20 years...If that's where you still are , would it be OK to PM you with his name? If by chance you guys know each other, I'd love for you to relay a hello from me...It's been many years...

[MilesColtrane]

58. Yes, by all means.

I'm actually a bass player, so maybe I know him or have played with him.

It's funny. I've been playing in this area for many years and I'm still meeting people who have been gigging here all that time.

[Odin2005]

33. +110, -40. Both in the Fargo area.

Continental climate is teh LOL! :rofl:

[azmouse]

35. Hottest 117. Coldest about -5.

[femmocrat]

37. 115 in Las Vegas. About -14 in PA. n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

38. 115 in AZ -15 in upstate NY

I will settle for Cali weather anytime except for one thing

THOSE DAMN COLD NIGHTS AT CANDLESTICK PARK!!!!!

[underpants]

39. first Graf

as in Grafenwehr in Germany

we got off the train and unloaded our tracks. We knew we were going straight into "the field" (the woods) for a week straight.

My heater blew out. Three guys in a Bradley with no heat for 7+ days. It got so cold that we lowered the ramp and had one of our tanks blow its exhaust into our Bradley-closed it up and it lasted for a few hours. Thank god for the NBC system heater-we ran it no stop with the hoses up our pantslegs.

Someone asked me when we got off the train what I thought the temperature was... the answer was 1. It was 1 degree.

We DID finally get inside and a month later as we were getting ready to leave we listened to the Beatles on a Czech radio station and had what easily had to be the biggest snowball fight ever-- at least 500 GI's blowing off steam it was ferocious.

[lizziegrace]

40. -27 in Illinois in 1983 with a -75 windchill

highest temp was 114 in Dallas in the early 70's

[Peregrine Took]

76. I remember that 1983 Chgo winter very, very well.

My mom was in hospice and my dad was on a ventilator. Hard to forget.

[lizziegrace]

79. What an awful time for you.

:(

[janx]

41. 115 in Arizona, and a toss-up

between -40 (wind chill included) in Iowa and -20 something in Alaska.

But nothing beats the withering feeling of the hot and humid summers of St. Louis, MO, where I grew up. YECH! People drip sweat just walking down the street.

[Capn Sunshine]

42. -5 in my walk-in freezer

and 155 in my kitchen in August when the fan broke.

[TZ]

45. lol well if you want to include freezers, I go into -80 C freezers

almost every work day...:P

[Capn Sunshine]

54. what the heck

do you keep @ -80?

[TZ]

62. antibodies!

And other related biological products....:)

[hunter]

65. Oh! I used to love doing that.

In the summer you could dash in and out of the freezers on a single breath in street clothes (even though this was verboten!) and it was quite refreshing. But if you had to do any searching, sorting, or stacking, you'd sure as hell want to wear the arctic clothes. Someone always had to be outside too, in case you collapsed or something. Nobody wants to find your frozen corpse in the freezer.

Coldest weather I've ever suffered was pumping gas into fleet vehicles at -24F. Hottest is visits to Death Valley in the summer, 125-130F in the shade, and who knows what in full sun.

[Subdivisions]

43. 113 °F in Dallas in 1980 and -25 °F in Jackson, WY in 2005. n/t

[elocs]

44. Here in La Crosse, WI (on the Mississippi east and south from Rochester, MN):

On 13 July, 1995 I experienced the city's record high of 108 degrees and the heat index was much higher since our summer's here tend to be humid.

On 8 February, 1971 was the second coldest day with a temp of -36, but I do remember the cold days of 2 & 3 February, 1996 when it was -34 and -35, although I distinctly remember the wind chill then was well into the -50s. I can also remember then dressing up warmly and walking to catch the bus since my car would not start. I had everything covered, including my face, dressing in layers and I was actually comfortable (I have winter boots that I could wear without socks and even down to -40 my feet would be warm).

[KamaAina]

46. Mid-100s, NYC, about ten years ago. -26 (overnight), Chicago, 25 or so years ago.

All of upper Manhattan was blacked out for days -- starting about seven blocks north of me, and including my workplace, so I had most of that week off.

By the time I actually got down to the North Loop that Chicago morning -- from a tiny studio in an old stone building with only an electric heater :scared: -- it had warmed up to about -5, still plenty cold enough to discover that mucus can congeal within the human nose into a substance closely resembling rubber cement.

[Chan790]

47. Highest 110'F, Lowest -2'F. Slept outside in 20'F temps.

Highest was in Houston, TX on a business trip in July. Dry heat at least.
Lowest was in CT, growing up...that was the day they made us wait for the buses inside.

I've slept outside in temperatures as cold as 20'F. That one Sue, was actually in your neck of the woods kind of. It was a fraternity retreat and the retreat planner would not tell us where we were going and it was late October in DC so we packed for DC Fall. T-shirts, sweatshirts and jeans, blankets and comforters off our beds...we went to Skyland in Shenandoah. I spent half the night sleeping in a public bathroom...my friend Brian got stepped on by a deer.

[ThoughtCriminal]

48. +122 F Phoenix -24 F Colorado

Although I did not spend much time outside on either of those days.

[Thirtieschild]

49. +110 Dallas -15 Texas Panhandle

[rockymountaindem]

50. Hottest: 122 at Hoover Dam tour. Coldest, -62 wind chill in Colorado when I was a kid

I of course had to go stand outside in that for a moment just to see what it felt like. Living in Toronto for four years was a pretty intense freezer at times as well :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

51. Warmest 119 (Rio), coldest 5 (Milwaukee)

[tigereye]

52. one winter it was -22 for a day or two, unheard of here, and never since

typically it might get to -5 once or twice in the winter, but that's about it


Highest- when my son was small, it was 100 one summer, but that's pretty rare, too. Typically, we hit 90 or so a few times in August.

[1gobluedem]

53. 112 degrees in Phoenix in July

-30 one January here in good old Ann Arbor.

It's 8 degrees right now with a -15 windchill.

[midnight armadillo]

55. And why is it people bitch about New England weather?

Sheesh. I even hear from people in other parts of the country. You know, calling a company to order something: "boston? How's the weather?" It's heavily moderated by the ocean, it doesn't get super hot or cold, and we get nice fall foliage.

Y'all who live in places that goes from +105 to -35F are the crazy ones.

[Flaxbee]

56. 115-120 a few times in Palm Springs ( I grew up about

40 miles west of PS).

Spent several days in Helsinki, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia in December a few years ago. It was cold, but I don't think it was as cold as a few weeks one winter when I was in Freeport, Illinois. I'm guessing the coldest temp was probably around zero, maybe 10 below.

All temps F.

Right now, here in western NC, it's in the low teens.

[Juche]

57. 110+ in the southwest. -40 in the midwest

[quakerboy]

59. 121/-22

One year my dad thought it would be a great idea to do Christmas in Yellowstone. Weather underground lists that day as -16, but its a big park, and the big thermometer outside and the one in my car overnight both read -22. I was loving the weather, I just didnt dig the "trapped with the family and no one else/nothing else for three days several states from home" aspect or the fact that my mom snored unstoppably and I did not get to sleep for 3 days straight.

On my honeymoon we drove from LA to the grand canyon then up to Vegas in the summer. Hottest I can find along our route was 117 from weather underground, but seeing as we were driving through the desert, and given that the normally very effective AC in our car wasn't enough to keep me safe from heat sickness, let alone comfortable, and I saw a thermometer outside one gas station reading 121 along the way, I am going to credit it. That really sucked. We hit southern California, and anywhere without AC was hell. Then we headed east, and even the places with AC were hell. Then we came back to SanFrancisco and our hotel, booked through Orbitz(avoid them like the plague if you want even the slightest hint of customer service, by the way) did not have half the amenities promised, key among which was AC.

In my childhood there may have been more extremes experienced, we moved around a bit, but if there were I do not recall them, nor would I imagine they would have beat either the high or low by much.

[JCMach1]

60. -14F in Oklahoma and 55C in the UAE

Celsius feels slightly better when it's that warm! That 55 did not include the HIGH humidity here along the Persian Gulf. A normal day is 120+F with 40%+ humidity here in the UAE during summers.

[stray cat]

61. minus 40 and plus 110

[guitar man]

63. Hottest about 130-135

My work area at a job I used to have would stay really hot in the summer. Coldest I can remember was -43 in Montana :scared:

[jpak]

66. 107 F and -45 F... both in Maine

n/t

[Zomby Woof]

67. -30°F in Flagstaff, AZ / 112°F in Phoenix, AZ

I lived in Arizona for a shorter time than anywhere else - 2 years - but it sets my personal record for both temperature extremes.

On edit: Lived in Flagstaff, but only visited Phoenix, so I avoided that city when it hit 120°F or more.

AND GO CHARGERS!!! Beat the 'Skins! :evilgrin:

[Burma Jones]

68. 115 in Phoenix, 104 in DC. I've lived through Brutal cold in College

In Galesburg, IL, -25 with howling winds in the winter of 1981-1982, there were wind chills in excess of 60 below. I remember the police patrolling the streets and passing some EMTs gathered around a guy who had froze to death. Makes Knox College a tough sell sometimes......

I remember Uncle Ronnie's second Inaugural....They had to move the parade to the Capitol Center in Largo, MD because it was way too cold to play wind instruments outside......

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

69. -84 degrees with wind chill. Northern Michigan 20 years ago.

[AngryAmish]

71. -72, in an airplane over Mongolia.

That was outside temp. I was inside. Having a cocktail.

[sakabatou]

72. OK

Warmest: Over 110 F at Mesada, Isarel
Coldest: 29 F in Ohio.

[jrandom421]

73. Here's mine

Highest temperature: July at Ft. Irwin, CA 125 degrees by 10:00 AM. You know it's freaking hot when the scorpions and sidewinders are scurrying for shade by 8:30 AM

Lowest temperature: Christmas at Ft Greeley, AK -47 degrees at high noon. Counting the 45+ knot winds, the chill factor was down to -90 degrees.

[Blue_In_AK]

78. Gets a little nippy up there in the Interior, doesn't it?

[vadawg]

74. fucking baltic in the artic and antartica, and sweating my bollocks off in the middle east or jungle

of belize or borneo... love both extremes :)

[begin_within]

75. 119 and 12

I lived in Phoenix for 3 years and the highest it ever got when I was there was 119, though I know it has hit 120 since I lived there. Lowest was 12, when I was skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows on Mt. Hood, Oregon. No wind chill so I didn't realize it was actually that cold until I got back to the building and read it. I think I'm a lot more cold-tolerant than heat-tolerant. I live in San Diego now and in the 27 years I've lived here the highest it's ever been at my house was 108 and the lowest 25.

[Blue_In_AK]

77. I've seen some extremes.

110 or so in the Death Valley area, -35 in Alaska.

[Rabrrrrrr]

80. About +115F in Phoenix, and ca. -40 (-120 windchill) in Wisconsin.

[RebelOne]

81. Coldest was minus 9 degrees in Edinburgh, Scotland

And the hottest was in the desert of New Mexico where it was 110 degrees in the shade.

[bikebloke]

82. Around 120 F in Israel.

I remember bundling up for a bike ride at 5 F once in Virginia.

[Broken_Hero]

83. hmm,

114 in Sacramento California, -15 in Anchorage Alaska.