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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What’s the hottest and coldest temperature you’ve ever experienced?
Talk about it.
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122 in Palm Springs …. 12 at Lake Tahoe
Hottest, …. here in Concord of 115 back maybe 20 years ago.
Coldest, …. Benica about 2008, it was a very cold and foggy day ~~
Got frostbite on 3 toes since my shoes were open toed and I have Raynaud’s Syndrome.
Death Valley on a family vacation – 112 degrees.
North Dakota winters – numerous occasions of 30 below zero (not including the wind chill). There’s a reason I left North Dakota.
Death Valley @ Stovepipe Wells….125
The hottest was when we went to the Mojave Desert during the summer. We didn’t have a thermometer, but it was so hot that when I touched the car door handle it was like touching a hot iron, and I burned my hand.
The coldest was 15 degrees at Carlin, Nevada.
June 1990 Sky Harbor airport 122deg. Planes could not take off, like a friggen furnace. cold not so much, freezing with wind chill “blizzard like” (Italy, Assergi Abruzzo)but not horrific.
i delivered newspapers in the snow in Canada as a kid,the wheels on my bike would freeze and not roll and i would drag it,my feet would be so frostbitten that a bucket of cold water would burn my feet
The temp?I dont know,I was 11,but I would say minus 10-20 degrees
WHENWILLTHEYLEARN,
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What part of Canada are you from?
WHENWILLTHEYLEARN,
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What part of Canada are you from?
125 at Ft Irwin near Barstow in July. 12 growing up in Calaveras County
It was 130 in Kuwait in 03 and 21 in Tahoe few years ago
Death Valley 124° and -8° in Fairbanks Alaska
Hottest 123 F in Phoenix, coldest -42F in MN
120+ Furnace Creek , Death Valley……but colddddd -38 Minot North Dakota,,fffrrreeeezzzinggg!!
The coldest I have been in as an adult was around -20, with a -50 windchill. There was one February where I recall temps being -30 with -80 windchills, but no records reports showed that when I tried to look (I do getting minor frostbite on my ears). The hottest I think has probably been around 120 in Scottsdale. Driving through the desert on I10, I know we were in some 120+ temperatures (well, my car was, we were in the air-conditioned vehicle)
112 in Victorville CA back in the 50’s. -25 near Talkeetna Alaska in the 1980’s
-70, northern Minnesota
119 Death Valley
– 70 Northern Minnesota
119 Death Valley
117 in Yuma, AZ. 8 below in Truckee
117 in our backyard in Clayton about 20-25 years ago, 10 degrees with the wind blowing about 20-25MPH walking from the rental car drop to the terminal in Dayton Ohio about 20 years ago; fortunately it was a short walk.
120 in Palm Springs. -5 in Sioux Falls SD.
118’two years ago in Concord. Today it was 113’. -9 in truckee California, the beverages would freeze in your hand within five minutes but not in an ice chest. Talk about extremes…
The hottest was 120+ working in the Boiler room of a US Navy War ship. The coldest was going to training in Great Lakes Illinois in January in order to work on the aforementioned Boilers
Almost Famous,
I didn’t wander back aft very often on any of my boats, but I’ll roger Great Lakes. I had boot camp in Orlando, but I got to GLakes in March for training, and that icy wind coming off of Lake Michigan would still cut right through you.
130 , Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Althoug I come from a cold country, I think the coldest was on Christmas I went to visit a girl friend in Denver, I think it was 17 below the day I arrived. My exhusband was from Wisconsin, and I spend several christmas’s there, and it gets pretty cold. New York City can feel very cold, if it is windy, because the wind and cold gets kind of trapped by the tall buildings. Denmark doesn’t really get that cold, but if is just around freezing and very humid, which is often the case, it can chill you to the bone. If it is frost and the sun it out it actually feels warmer, even though it the temperature is colder. The hottest, probably Israel, I been too Arizona when it was very hot. However, I found New Orleans very uncomfortabe, because it was so humid.
122 in Phoenix, 1990, -22 in the Chicago area.