What's the range of real temperatures you have experienced in your life?

[Guest]

Trivial, but slightly interesting.   I know we have some folks who have been to all ends of the earth on here, but did they hit it at the right time of the year?  Don't be using the wind chill or heat index numbers.   What was the actual temp on the thermometer?

As a kid, we had record temps of 117 in Wichita Falls/ North Texas in the Summer of 1980.  Today it is -9 in Amarillo.

126 degrees for my lifetime.

[Telegraph_it 3358]

110 in the middle of the outback. I flew home  and 48 hours later I was in Jackson Hole where it was -18. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

110 in Vegas and -18 (wind chill) on the slopes in Va.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

7 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

110 in the middle of the outback. I flew home  and 48 hours later I was in Jackson Hole where it was -18. 

Damn, didn't even see that post...  -18 in JH without a wind chill probably ?

[Guest Lobo]

Ambient air temp in Ontario, Canada, -30 below zero.  (I know that's redundant like ATM Machine, but it's for effect).  Few occasions in Texas, Western Morocco, and Nevada at about 115.  With heat indexes, probably 125 but for very short periods of time.  With wind chill, been at near -60 below zero for sustained periods of time. 

[TexPx 2323]

I’m seeing that -1 was recorded at D/FW on Dec. 23 1989.


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[52-80 19214]

been up in arctic circle and around everest and shit, but the coldest ive ever felt was springtime in saltillo mountains near monterrey.  wore like 4 layers inside my sleeping bag and almos froze to death.  no idea of temperature.

 

second coldest ive ever felt was getting ghosted by this girl after what i thought was a good date at cirque du soleil.

 

hottest?  pick any day in texas.  there was that one summer where it was 40+ days without precipitation, and 100f+?  that was unberaable

[Guest Lobo]

dibs on "Around Everest And Shit" for my REI improv troupe.  Was gonna call it a nice humblebrag  but you stuck the landing with "and shit" Nobody says, "The crossfit gym I do and shit", "I used to live around Manhattan and shit", "I became a vegan and shit."  Well done.  

And yeah, Saltillo Mountains get real fucking cold after sunset, real quick, and with no warning.

[Juicy 727]

-21 low in Metro Detroit, 106 high in Metro Detroit. 

On vacation have been in 111 heat but going local for this. 127 temp swing. 

[deadshank 24653]

+111 building a deck at deer camp in Uvalde. 
 

-10 elk hunting in MT. 

[Spoosner 86]

-26F in Quebec City, 1/2/2014. Been skiing all my life and lived in Manhattan and shit for 10 years. -26 was...eye opening.

Pick a summer in Texas for the high. Looks like it was 112 in Dallas in 2018.  I was here then.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

17 minutes ago, Spoosner said:

-26F in Quebec City, 1/2/2014. Been skiing all my life and lived in Manhattan and shit for 10 years. -26 was...eye opening.

Pick a summer in Texas for the high. Looks like it was 112 in Dallas in 2018.  I was here then.

Must have been glorious on the chairlift.

[Mother mopar 3322]

When I was stationed at Minot AFB (Dec 98) the coldest I ever saw was -67 windchill and I thought I truly made mistake in my life decisions. Fast forward a decade plus and I'm deployed to Afghanistan and it was 120 ish, don't remember the exact temp but it so damn hot.

[Laxtonto 12090]

-25 during my 4 years I lived in SD. High is going to be the 112 during during the summer of 1980. (I dont really remember how hot it was when we went to Death Valley when I was a kid but I swear it felt like I was on the surface of the sun). 
 

137+

Edited February 15, 2021 by Laxtonto
national weather service says my memory sucks

[Telegraph_it 3358]

1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Damn, didn't even see that post...  -18 in JH without a wind chill probably ?

Haha yea funny coincidence.
 

Correct. That was not factoring wind chill. 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

120-plus in the Arava, hottest part of the Negev in Israel. I was a kibbutz volunteer laying pipe (not the Steel Shank kind) in that shit. I about went loco.

I was also on a worksite sitting in a pick-up truck through the hottest day in Chicago history. It was about 104 and humid as fuck. Hundreds of people died over the course of a few days. 

Coldest I can say with certainty was about -9 in Nashville. Ex and I got off a bus in the middle of the night in bumfuck Germany one night to stretch our legs while en route to Prague and that was so cold you could practically hear it. Somewhere below zero, I am sure. 

[Hpara759 1780]

116 in Vegas....  -14 Council Bluffs 

[Wally Fairway 5571]

113 in Vegas and -17

my son can beat that 126 in Kuwait City last August and -18
he was stationed in Iraq, said he got used to 115 but that 125 was too hot

Edited February 15, 2021 by Wally Fairway

[txfan75 7673]

127 in Saudi Arabia one summer deployment in the 90's. -14 on the way into work here in Omaha this morning.

[Incredulity 11681]

Left Bismarck at -35F drove to Rapid City arrived at +40F.

75 degrees in 4 hrs without flying.

 

[956 Worldwide 34742]

+110 in Uzbekistan. - 41 in Russia about 15 years ago in what the news said was their coldest winter since the war. So a swing of 151.  -41 is deadly, no matter how warmly you were dressed, you didn’t want to be out in it. Anything exposed freezes.

Edited February 15, 2021 by 956 Worldwide

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

-23 in Red Dog Alaska.

110 in Mesquite NV

[phdhorn 6224]

-35 Buffalo NY (-87 wind chill)
112 here in 2009 I think

Edited February 15, 2021 by phdhorn

[Chewbacca 7780]

I haven't been in super hot weather, although Costa Rica felt like the surface of the sun the first time we were there.  I have been in -40 temps in Fraser, though.  So cold the deadbolt had frost on it on the inside of the house.

[Shoxthemonkey 1982]

-15 and 112, both in Wichita. But they get 3 of the most beautiful days you can imagine. 1 each in April, May and October. I did see -20 at Mt. Washington, NH but we made a special trip to do that.

[Js1 85465]

122 in Doha and -6 in Denver

[Chooky 13317]

3 hours ago, phdhorn said:

-35 Buffalo NY (-87 wind chill)
112 here in 2009 I think

So a -87 wind chill is pretty much when your eyes slide out of your head and sound like ping pong balls when they bounce across the sidewalk?

[Hefeweizen 5328]

-35 F in Wyoming once in the winter.  Cheyenne is a cold bitch.  I think it’s been close in a blizzard in Rocky Mountain NP but not quite that cold.

 

128 in Needles, California on the way to LA.

 

Close to the same temperature with 100 percent humidity in Rio de Janeiro.

[phdhorn 6224]

36 minutes ago, Chooky said:

So a -87 wind chill is pretty much when your eyes slide out of your head and sound like ping pong balls when they bounce across the sidewalk?

Anything that wasn't covered stung within about 15 secs.  I was out for like 4 mins. and had to thaw my extremities for 15 mins. afterwards.

This was during a major pileup on an interstate.  Cops finally got to me about 4 hours into the wreck.  Fortunately I was traveling with GF and we had tons of winter clothes.  Unfortunately she was on her time of the month.  Considered for a few seconds holing up outside the car in -87° wind chill instead.

[orange dream 1255]

119 in Phoenix back in the late 90s and -39 in Calgary in 2006.  Landed in Calgary that afternoon, checked in to hotel and my co-worker and I planned to walk across the street (literally) for dinner.  As we walked out the doorman asked if he could get us a cab.  We said, we are just walking right over there (pointing to the restaurant) and he said "are you sure"?  We said we were sure and then realized our mistake  by the time we reached the corner but were too prideful to turn back.  We did get a cab to go back to the hotel after dinner though.

 

[Pato del Muerto 52550]

Around 115 and -20

[CooterBrown 18022]

118 in Phoenix and -11 (-25 windchill) in Cleveland.

[Dbeasy 15077]

120 in Phoenix just 2-3 years ago and -25 outside rapid city South Dakota about 25 years ago. 145. 

[McCroskey 1505]

Lol at y’all knowing the actual temperature when you were in Vegas.

I usually measure it as cold, hot, or hot as fuck.

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

123 at the MCAGCC 29 Palms, California in 1981.  -5 in Center, Texas in 1989 (by my thermometer) and Helena, Montana in 2018.

[Shoxthemonkey 1982]

Predicting -15 overnight. Will be a new personal low.

[Pato del Muerto 52550]

My money is on @Macanudo to take the prize here, unless some oil worker on here has been to prudhoe bay as well as somewhere near the equator. 

[General Specific 3263]

-25 skiing Colorado (during a white out) trying to get that last run of the day.
112 just south of Ft. Stockton (saw a bird drop dead out of the sky)

[Guest]

2 hours ago, McCroskey said:

Lol at y’all knowing the actual temperature when you were in Vegas.

I usually measure it as cold, hot, or hot as fuck.

The women or the craps table?

[elfenix 34331]

21 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

My money is on @Macanudo to take the prize here, unless some oil worker on here has been to prudhoe bay as well as somewhere near the equator. 

my dad has been to both the north slope and some equatorial fields but i don't think his equatorial travels were to anywhere hotter than texas.  desert regions typically aren't right on the equator.  cairo is further north than houston, for example.  

 

now someone going to both the north slope and qatar, that'd probably do it. 

Edited February 16, 2021 by elfenix

[McCroskey 1505]

16 minutes ago, slorch said:

The women or the craps table?

It's quite a versatile scale, for sure.

[Chewbacca 7780]

-25 skiing Colorado (during a white out) trying to get that last run of the day.
112 just south of Ft. Stockton (saw a bird drop dead out of the sky)

-25 during the day? Wind chill, maybe, but zero chance ambient was that cold.

[Blotto 23560]

-15 Milwaukee. Dont think the temperature got above 0 for over a week. 

112 in Austin in 2011. I shit you not, the austin hot sauce festival was that weekend so we checked it out that Sunday. Fantastic idea. 

[PhillyD 1257]

-22 in Lake Louise, Alberta.  I was snow skiing and moisture in my eyelashes would freeze inside my goggles.  

116 a couple of times in DFW area. 

The most memorable heat for me was Six Flags a couple of years ago when it was 112 or so.  It took me  a few days to recover from that.  Never again.

[Guest]

should have a qualifier for how many miles apart some of these are, or in my case, the number of years... almost 41.

[markstanco 12586]

About the same as others.

[Longhornstampede 3185]

121 out in Yuma, AZ

-6 IN Battle Creek, MI

Range of 127 degrees

[BearMace 2206]

119° in Phoenix

-4° on Crested Butte

Most miserable cold I've ever been though was at a football game in Stoolwater. By a longshot too.

 

 

[Both Tacos 1806]

I've been in a couple 105+ degree days in Dallas and just had -15 in Dalhart last night. That was some pretty freaking cold weather. Wind chill was -28. Never seen below zero on the temp gauge before yesterday.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

10 years ago we reached 134 degrees, I think it was a field outside of my town that was the hottest place on the planet

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mprnews.org/amp/story/2011/07/20/hottest-most-humid-mn-day-ever-tuesday-severe-risk-today

Coldest would’ve been a cold snap 2 years ago with the air temp at -26 but a wind chill of -56

https://www.weather.gov/fgf/2019_01_29-31_ExtremeCold

Looking at 200 degree swing. Edit: I guess thats heat index and wind chill


I don’t want to flex but the snap we’re in now pretty common. Next week looks promising, back to the mid 30s. That’s 60 degrees right there. Don’t see anything too cold in the future case