Climate - What's the Hottest/coldest You Have Ever Been? JFF

I lived in Tucson and it was about 112 and when we moved to Quebec the temp dipped to -45 before wind chill. The amazing thing it was in the same year. Got to love the military and its assignments.

the other S.

I actually live in the coldest city in the world. I am in what is called an extreme humid continental climate, so we get hot summers and very cold winters. The coldest I have experienced was -44 F, but with the wind chill it was something like -70 F. The hottest I have experienced was 103 F, but with the humidex it was more like 127 F.

Today it is -6 F, but with the wind chill it is -24 F. The kids played outside after school.

I was SO excited back in 1989 to move to Texas (Dallas area). The day the moving truck showed up on 12/15... it was ZERO outside. NOT a good impression. However, on Christmas day that year, it was 65.

The weather changes so fast here!

Today we have ice and it is 26 with expected lows to 15 overnight. Everything stops around here when ice or snow is mentioned. It gets crazy... store shelves are emptied.

My hubby is out running my errands to bank and post office this am because I am not moving from this house today unless there is some emergency.

My warmest days have also been in TX in the summer. We are used to 100+ for days on end. I believe it got to 112 or 115 one year, I forget the year.

Anyway, I'll take the 100 sun and heat any day over cold weather.

I grew up in South Dakota, and strangely enough, that's where the coldest and hottest climates are for me! Coldest was one winter during a white out blizzard, it was -81 with wind chill. The governor came on the radio and said no one is to go outside. We couldn't anyway, there was snow blocking the doors.

The hottest was in mid July during a softball tournament in Pierre. It was 110, and we were told to hydrate, wrap soaked towels around us, and take 30 minutes between games to recoup.

Interesting question!

Coldest-- I grew up in Wyoming in a basin surrounded by mountains. We often had cold settle into the basin for a week that was -40s without a windchill. I also lived in South Dakota and North Dakota where with windchill a couple of times it hit -49 with the windchill.

Hottest-- Honduras. The thermometer we had read 120 while it was sitting in the shade. That was without the heat index. I have no idea what that was but it was HOT!

Can't respond with actual recorded temperatures. It was mighty cold in Iceland in February. Also mighty cold at Mt. Tremblant, Quebec in March. The coldest I have felt though is in Melbourne, Australia in the winter. It is cold and damp, the homes are not well insulated, and there was no reprieve.

In terms of hot, I guess, the desert in Egypt, near Vegas and the scrubland near El Paso would probably have the highest temps. In terms of percieved hot though, nothing tops being in the NYC subway on a hot humid day during rush hour and have the AC fail, and the train delayed in a dress suit and stockings with a briefcase and heels shoulder to shoulder with all the other working schlubs. Sweat soup.

Best,
F. B.

Just live in Texas. And you will experience both lol. Coming from very temperate Wales, it has been a big shock to have 117 degree summer days and 0 degree winter days

Coldest was around -30 (Can't remember the exact number)

Hottest was around 115 - Vacation in Cali and it was much preferred to the 'coldest'. I was not built for Minnesota living!!!

It is at moments like this that I REALLY think I have early onset Alzheimer's.

Wow..you all can remember years,temps and exact locations. Maybe for me it is like childbirth...I forget the "pain" but remember the precious moments.

Arizona is HOT in the summer but it was great swimming in everyone's pool...seemed like everyone had one, Utah is cold in the winter but fun to make snowmen and have snowball fights.

That is as specific as I can get. But...I feel like I am experiencing our coldest winter yet. I live near San Francisco and it got to 28 flipping degrees last night. Our palm trees need a blanket every night so we don't lose them. Yikes!!

Coldest, prob Kentucky, -10 or so.

Hottest, Tennessee, 1980, 113. My poor Dad outside 16 hours a day building a new 9 holes on a golf course.

Hot here, most often. Weeks of over 100 everyday. 110 sometimes.
It's amazing How much hotter, 105 feels then 95.

It's dryer than Houston, though!
More humid than AZ and it doesn't cool down when the sun goes down.
It's often 98 at 10:00 at night.

You would never know it today! It started to sleet and freezing rain at 4 yesterday and will probably stop at 10 today. It's a stand still. The ice is bad on the road.

Coldest? Cleveland, OH I think winter of 1983. -30 below (with windchill) Didn't go out in that. Too darn cold and there was a blizzard during that as well.

Hottest? Lake Havasu 123. Too freaking hot!!! The only saving grace in that is it was a dry heat.

Most miserable? Houston in the summer!!! =)

The hottest weather I have ever been in was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It was 130 degrees in the sun! The worst part was we had to hike out of the canyon in that weather. It is a 9.5 mile hike with a 4000 foot change in elevation....moving steadily uphill the whole way. I remember passing a temperature gauge that was in the shade at 7am and it was over 110 then. We were so thankful to just make it out!

The coldest weather I've been in is around -10 degree weather with strong winds coming off the Great Lakes. So I'm not sure what the wind chill would have been.

I am not sure of the hottest, I did basic training in North Carolina in June and July. We had some black flag days that meant it was over 100 but I had no idea the actual temp. For coldest I have been in -58 while at the ice festival in Fairbanks AK. Where I live is in the southern part of AK so we normally stay between 0 and -20 or so, so -58 felt colder, but it really was not that big of a difference since once you get to a certain point cold it just cold. You make sure no bare skin is showing and just layer up!

Deep Creek Lake, MD-probably -30 with wind chill and Washington, D.C.around 113 or so with the "humiture"!

Hottest ever was Haiti. Went there on a cruise and it was brutal.

Coldest - I'd say one day in NYC when it was super cold and the wind was whipping through the buildings while I was walking to work. Was wearing a winter coat, with a fleece and a sweater and shirt. 2 scarves (one was a scarf-hat), gloves and warm boots. My shoelace became untied and I didn't dare stop to tie it. I was afraid I'd freeze. And god knows no New Yorker would scrape me off of the sidewalk until the thaw!!

Typical NE range...-20 through 104ish.
My husband experienced -48 in Norway in the service.
He said 10 degrees felt like Florida. Several men lost toes. Yikes!

It was sometime in 1996 I believe that it got to -24 in Jan or Feb. in the spokane area.
The hottest was one summer I went to visit my sister in AZ and it hit a high of 122!

The coldest I've ever been isn't significant, only about 8 degrees, not nearly as cold as others on here.

The hottest I've been was in Eastern Washington 6 or 7 years ago in late July or early August. I had gone over to visit my grandfather as he was dying. My parents and I had gone out for coffee/water an went to a sidewalk café. We watched the time/temperature sign on the local bank across the street inch up to from 110 to 116 over ten minutes and it stayed at 116 for the remaining thirty minutes we were there. Fortunately, it was a dry heat, but I never want to go through that again!

Coldest -20 or so. Hottest 110 or so. But it isn't the heat so much as the humidity that makes it feel hot. Here in the summer it is routinely 90+ with 70+ humidity which makes it feel crazy hot.

120s... Northern Africa.
LOVED it.
It actually felt cooler than 105 in the south west US... As your sweat evaporates BEFORE it hits your top layer of skin.
So you're never sweaty/ sticky feeling.

The hottest I've ever FELT wasnt that hot.
It was bleeding humid.
Either souther Japan or Charleston SC.
Japan was probably worse, as the humidity was 99%, and the temp was 100+, but we had better air conditioning in Japan. So it's a tossup.

Temp-wise the coldest I've been is neg 10 or so.
Cheyanne Wyoming.

The coldest I've every FELT was actually not super low temps (around 0)... But it was 3 weeks out of doors/no shelter/showers/etc... In cotton. Yeah. Gotta love the military. Really glad we never invaded the USSR. Our cold weather gear was crapola. Our sleeping bags were awesome, dual sac, gortex phenom. But you could only "wear" them at night/while sleeping.

When I was living in Idaho Falls (which has been ranked the 14th coldest city in the nation. They have been in the negatives for the last few days, so glad I moved...) we had a day that it reached -27 I can't remember what the wind chill added, but it was insane... We had blowing ice just plastering itself to the side of everything. We had just moved into a trailer that hadn't been weatherproofed yet, and it was horrible. (That's 6 kids under the age of 10...) It was too cold for the vehicles to even think about starting; luckily, my granparents had a heated garage and they came to get us. (Took almost 3 hours to make a 15 minute round trip!)

I also remember one year, we had a blizzard on the 4th of July. Lol.

The hottest was when I was in BMT (boot camp) in TX from July-Sept. :/ yeeeeah. I can't remember the actual temps, but there were days that we were not even allowed to go outside because the temperature was a health hazard... But once that heat index dropped one degree below "black flag" they marched us right out into the heat in full gear, carrying packs and weapons to drill. It was brutal. We actually had 3 women in my flight hospitalized for heat exhaustion (their own fault for not following the VERY strict hydration schedule we were on...)

I come from a hot climate where it often gets over 104, but the hottest I ever experienced was in Japan. We were travelling to the mountains and stopped in a geographical 'bowl' where the temperature was magnified. The car temp gauge read 132. It felt just like a sauna. The coldest was also in Japan, but I don't know the temp - it was cold enough to snow - which is pretty cold for me!

hottest was 120 when we went to Palm Springs in the summer for the weekend

Coldest I remember was 13 degrees last year (or maybe 2 years ago) here in VA at home when I left to take kids to school at 7:30am.

I'm hoping we have a cold and snowy winter!!

Have lived in Northern Utah/Southern Idaho all my life, a few winters I remember it regularly being -30. Then when it got to be 10 degrees out, that seemed warm!
I have not really traveled too much. It was really hot at Lake Powell this last September, 107 degrees, no AC, no trees to be seen, just hot dry rock and luckily a lake! We spent almost all our time in the water because it was too hot to be anywhere else. I had to keep drenching myself in bottled waters at night because I could not sleep.
My hubby lived in Siberia for a few years. He said it would get so cold you could spit out a window and it would shatter when it hit the sidewalk.

I don't remember it being that cold in Boston but assuming your memory is better than mine, then that would be my record for cold as well as I was living here in 2003. Off the top of my head, I would have said -6 in January 2004 as I remember that my husband was away (in Miami, sleeping on a boat, where it was 40 degrees - admittedly chilly for boat sleeping), my car wouldn't start and our heating system went all in the same long day.

Hottest? I think it's gotten to 104 here.

I've lived in Alaska and Saudi Arabia. :)

coldest - 20, Colorado
hottest was Tallahassee, FL in the early 80s - one summer it was 109 for weeks.

We went to Palm Springs one year, it was something like 121. Much different from Georgia/Southern summers. Humidity will suck everything out of you.

The coldest was in Maine, it was -24. That was just cold. brutal is more like it.