What are the coldest/warmest

[Mendocino]

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temperatures you've ever been in ? I'm thinking natural outdoor temps, not saunas or ice cream factories. Thanks.

-31 and 112 for me.



On edit- mine were in Michigan and California.

[kayakjohnny]

1. -17 and I'll match your 112

[emilyg]

2. -10 in Poland. Over 120 in Az.

[LWolf]

3. -19 a couple of winters ago.

129 in Death Valley a couple of decades ago.

[Ptah]

4. -40 and 118

Montana - Arizona

[A Simple Game]

5. -42 in Northern New York, outdoor high would be less than 100

but with very high humidity.

[femmocrat]

6. -14 in PA and 115 in NV.

I actually prefer the -14.

[Archae]

7. -40 and 105.

Haven't seen the cold though for a decade!

[rurallib]

8. -40 in Canada and 112 in Vegas BUT

a 107 in Iowa felt much worse - really humid day

[Odin2005]

9. -45F and +110F, both in the Fargo area.

[guardian]

10. -38F in Upstate NY. +121F southern Spain

and that 121F was in the shade!

[nolabear]

11. -27 and 103

I think that last is right. The former, the first time I ever went to Pittsburgh, was where I learned not to wear any jewelry that would be exposed, and that car batteries don't work.

[HopeHoops]

12. Well I did experience a net 80 degree temperature change in the same day.

The wind chill in NH was -20 when I left. When I arrived in Tampa it was 60. I was walking around in a short sleeve shirt and everyone looked at me like I was a space alien or something. I'd just been shoveling snow a few days earlier in a tank top and jeans, so 60 felt like a heat wave to me.

[hobbit709]

13. -50 and 120

[byeya]

14. 123F Death Valley Natiional Park, -14F Fancy Gap, VA

I don't know what the wind chill was at Fancy Gap but the wind was gusting to 50 mph and I was out in it for close to an hour.
Better than 123F though - I'll never do that again.

[grasswire]

15. -45 and +117

Montana, and Needles CA.

Camping along the Colorado River was tolerable if you spent a lot of time in the water. Which we did.

The day I felt the hottest in my life was in Williamsburg Virginia. It wasn't the temp so much as the humidity and the still, still air. It was probably in the 90s, fahrenheit.

[BlueJazz]

16. About -50 Canada....115 Death Valley

Wasn't very happy with either one of them

[Ter]

17. Probably around 0 (NYC and NJ don't get that cold) and 104

The 104 was last year, on July 22.

[Populist_Prole]

18. -7 in the NY/NJ area, 116 in Borrego Springs California

Both were felt very acutely: I was working outdoors on the midnight shift in 7 below zero temperatures, and cruising through the desert in an un-airconditioned pickup truck in the California desert, as well as hiking around a bit to take photos. While the sun felt intense, and I could tell it was very hot out, I actually expressed surprise when I was told what the actual temperature was. Guess it was the "dry heat" thing.

[KamaAina]

19. -26 (Chicago), 100+ for several days (NYC)

In NYC I was a few blocks south of the point at which all power to northern Manhattan was cut off and remained off through the heat wave. My work, however, was not, and so remained closed.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. The hottest was last year at 115 which broke the record for highest temp ever recorded

in our area. I'm not sure about the lowest, but possibly in the minus teens.

[Broken_Hero]

21. Hmm,

115 in Sacramento, and -30 in Anchorage Alaska

[hifiguy]

22. Both right here in Minneapolis

-34 (winter of 1983-84) and 105 (July 2001). We get the worst of everything up here. Uff da.

[OriginalGeek]

23. I don't know the tempuration but

the coldest I've been was at Texas Stadium in the early 80s - my friend and I went to see the LA Rams play the Cowboys and it was so cold it hurt. I mean HURT. We missed most of the second half because we just couldn't take it and we hung out in the bathroom to get a little relief - it was slightly warmer in there and no wind.

And on top of that the Cowboys lost. I don't blame em though - I'da said "fuck it" and forfeited if I was playing that day.

We both swore we'd never be that cold again and I moved to Florida shortly afterwards.

I have never been that cold again.


And I don't think it was even close to what some of you folks are posting.

As for warmest I am sure I've seen over 100 but I couldn't specify the time or place.

[Bertha Venation]

24. The hottest was probably in CA, and I don't remember.

The coldest was here in the DC area, 4F. It was a few years ago.

[RebelOne]

25. I lived in South Florida most of my life until I moved here to North Georgia.

And this summer has been the hottest I ever experienced. South Florida was hot and humid, but at least there were sea breezes that helped cool the temperature despite the high humidity.

The coldest temperature I have ever been in was in Scotland when the temperature dropped to minus-9 degrees at night.

[sakabatou]

26. Coldest: 28. Hottest: 111.

[tjwash]

27. 122 in Death Valley, -38 in Juneau AK

[DearHeart]

28. Don't remember the coldest...

living in Chicago, lots of cold days. The hottest was 114 in Athens, Greece (2007) and 115 on vacation in Missouri (late 70s)

[JonLP24]

29. Around 120

Either Kuwait City or Phoenix. I've spent far more time in Phoenix so they probably have the edge.

Coldest is slightly below freezing at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.

[Ikonoklast]

30. -21 and +116.

I tolerate the cold far better than the hot.

One can always dress for the cold, but there isn't much you can do except stay out of direct sunlight when it's hot out.

[Fridays Child]

31. Wind chill factor probably doesn't count here but, if it did, the coldest temperature was...

...56 degrees below zero, in Kansas City. It was painful to breathe and my nostril hairs turned into tiny icicles, the instant I stepped outside. It was on a Friday afternoon and it was snowing so hard that I decided to ride home with my husband in his 4-wheel drive truck. I left my car at work, over the weekend, parked straight into the wind. Amazingly, the motor turned over on the following Monday.

I can't say for sure the highest temperature I've been in but, considering that I now live in southern Arizona, 120 degrees is probably not an unreasonable guess.

[mykpart]

32. -3F and +114F.

It was a very unusually cold winter in Dallas, I think it was 1991, give or take a year. +114 was in the same place, 1980.

[sarge43]

33. -45 and 110. NH and Sahara Desert n/t

[Honeycombe8]

36. The Sahara was only 110? It's hotter here in Dallas TX on occasion. nt

[sarge43]

37. I was there during Nov and Dec, so average temp was a bit lower.

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The poor souls who were stationed there all year around told us summer temps were a preview of hell mid summer.

[CBGLuthier]

34. -5 and 110, all in the same place

Oklahoma has what you call the extremes,

[Mendocino]

38. Here in NW Ohio

my extremes have been -20 and about 104. I'll have to check but I believe we've had a record number of 95 plus days and 100 plus days this year. We had terrible heat in 1988 but it was dry. Throw in the humidity this year and I would say this is the hottest summer I ever remember. (I'm almost 55) But we all know global warming is just LW propaganda.

[Honeycombe8]

35. Cold 12 (Chicago). Hot 115 or so? (Dallas TX) I prefer the cold. nt

[jp11]

39. I don't know!

And am irritated so many people here have answers.

What do you all carry around a thermometer with you for pete's sake?

Who does that? What's wrong with you all? Why wasn't I warned about this? I could've contributed to society!

Don't look at me I'm a freak, a freak!

[Mendocino]

40. This may not be the right

climate to discuss, weather or not you could have precipitated it. A hard rain is going fall.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. both extremes

-32 in New York State, and 115 in Arizona.