What's the hottest temperature you've experienced?

[bob4432]

122F - Phx, AZ 1991

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Is it true that when temperatures reach 120+, home ACs really can't do a good job to cooling?

they can keep it around 80F if the house is pretty weel insulated and the A/C is big enough, but they never turn off and will run 24/7

i would take 115+ dry vs 100 humid any day. arizona native, f*ck humidity

actually swamp coolers work exceptionally well with no humidity upto ~110 or so

 

[KDOG]

When I was stationed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in the summer of 1995, they - of course - were having a record setting heat wave, I have a photo somewhere of the thermometer outside the building where I was staying - 134 degrees.

I win!

And of course I was a firefighter while I was in the Air Force, and we would have to throw our bunker gear on to go answer calls. Alot of the calls were believe it or not air conditioner fires!!

 

[Canterwood]

105 F while in Crete.

Here in the UK it never gets above 100, but the humidity is terrible.

 

[Bateluer]

Around 120ish, PHX AZ, but I was working on the flightline that week, so it probably a lot hotter. A giant slab of pavement in a desert with no shade and lot of fighter jets gets pretty hot.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: KDOG
When I was stationed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in the summer of 1995, they - of course - were having a record setting heat wave, I have a photo somewhere of the thermometer outside the building where I was staying - 134 degrees.

I win!

And of course I was a firefighter while I was in the Air Force, and we would have to throw our bunker gear on to go answer calls. Alot of the calls were believe it or not air conditioner fires!!

LOL!

 

[trmiv]

Like others have said, the humidty makes a massive difference. Last year I went to Jamaica on vacation, on the day we left Jamaica it was 86 degrees with 80% humidty, it felt soooo hot. When I got back home to California it was 93 degrees, but 22% humidty. The result was, it felt much, much, much cooler to me to be in the 93 degree heat than it did in the 86 degree heat the previous day in Jamaica.

Hottest I've been in tempwise is probably about 117, but that was like 20% humidty. But, 99 with 75% humidty that I felt in Mashalltown, Iowa one time was the worst.

 

[Conky]

124 in Mexicali, Mexico. Instant sweating.

Upside was all the chicks there wear mini-skirts... they have to to survive! :laugh:

 

[Megalomaniacal]

Not sure on the hottest, but I know every somewhere where I grew up it would hit 120 many times during the summer. I do remember it at least being 125 several times, although it may have hit 126/7 a few times as well.

Grew up in imperial valley, one of the few places besides death valley below sea level. I believe the lowest point in Imperial valley was only 4 ft higher than the lowest point in death valley.