What is the coldest & hottest weather you've ever experienced?

[Gooberlx2]

Hottest is somewhere between 100F and 105F in Florida (that goddamn humidity). Coldest is between -20F and -30F in Eau Claire, WI (and much worse with windchill)

 

[shortylickens]

Growing up in Minnesota I once went to school in -44 degrees.
They didnt close my school district until -50. I think we did hit that once.
I was stationed in Iceland for 18 months and it never got very cold.

Later I was stationed in the Mojave Desert for 3 years. The worst we ever had was late July in 2003 (or was it 2004). I remember standing gate guard once in 125 degrees.

Death Valley was really close and I visited one weekend in the summer. When I got back some friends had told me it got up to 130. But I was in the car with A/C so I never actually felt it.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: DT4K

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
-72 (No wind chill - Wind chill doesn't count)
+117

Where was that -72 ?


Coldest: about -10F in the mountains of Oregon.
Hottest: 114 in Phoenix, AZ
Most wickedly uncomfortable: 103 w/ high humidity in charlotte, nc

Fairbanks Alaska... January 1990

It snowed on Maui today. Brrr...

 

[MasterOfKtulu109]

it was 65 yesterday, and with the wind chill, it is -1 today.

gotta love the midwest.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

+123ish (lived in Phoenix, AZ most of my life)
-20ish in Wisconsin this winter (wind chill got to something like -45 or 55)

 

[Codewiz]

129F in Kuwait with 100% humidity
-15F in Banff Canada

 

[compman25]

120's in AZ
-40 in North Dakota and in the Alberta Canada providence or whatever they call it.

 

[sandorski]

-43C in Ft McMurray Alberta, 40C in Midway British Columbia

 

[TallBill]

-10F or so in the midwest, nearly 130F in Kuwait, I felt like a muffin in an oven.

 

[sdifox]

-30C, +45C, actual.

 

[invidia]

120F with 100% humidity (Around middle school times, Florida)
low 40s F (It doesn't get cold here)

 

[ryan256]

Coldest. -50* F
Lived in Anchorage, Alaska for 3 years when I was about 6 y/o

Hottest. 115* F
Driving through the desert in AZ from CA to AL.

 

[Jimmah]

Coldest -47 (2 winters ago)
Warmest +48 (last summer)

Ottawa weather is right messed.

 

[Randum]

Hottest- no idea, prob in the 100s...
Coldest-i think it will be tonight, suppose to hit -25 wind chill here in chicago!

 

[ViviTheMage]

okay, yesterday it was 40-45 degrees F...today it is -40 to 45 degrees F (with the windchill) ... that is a BIG change imo.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Coldest -30, yah Minnesota
Hottest 110ish

You totally got me. Hottest maybe 105, coldest maybe 10? (whatever it was the one winter I lived in Cambridge, Mass.).

 

[LtPage1]

~120F one summer in Sacramento, CA, and probably ~20F or so degrees in France in December.

 

[olds]

Coldest:
1977. I was living in South Lake Tahoe and my gf and I were on our way to Squaw Valley in her car to see Pablo Cruise in concert. With the wind chill, it was 40 below. We stopped just below Tahoe City to watch boats filling up with water from the waves and sinking. When we got back my car was so frozen you could hear the seats crack when you sat in them. On the way home my car overheated because the coolant had frozen.

Hottest:
1984 in Fort Hood, Texas. It was about 100 degrees with about the same humidity. I got heat stroke walking to the PX to cash my check. Being a guy I couldn't ask for help. I cashed my check, bought some beer and took a cab back to the barracks. I then drank and dehydrated myself even further. It's amazing what we can do to our bodies when we are young.

In 1988 at my brothers wedding, it was 113 degrees (Sacramento) and we were in suits. It was stifling.

 

[Descartes]

Probably > 120F around Death Valley, or even a month or so of constant ~110F in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Coldest was probably in Cleveland, OH. There were some sub-zero temperatures, and for me that was extremely cold. When it got windy I felt like my ears were going to fall off.

 

[uberman]

-30*F in Northern British Columbia or Alaska.

+118*F in eastern Washington state.

I have a nice - 70*F snowsuit, down overalls with 5 inches of goose down loft all around and a hooded goose down parka with even more loft. I blew an engine in my truck one time and had to hitchike over 200 miles to the nearest town while it was -10*F.