Hottest Temperature you have ever experienced (dewpoint, ground, month, North)
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I've never been to Arizona or Las Vegas where it gets up to 120 degrees and I never want to, although the dry heat probably won't bother me as much as humid heat.
The hottest weather I've ever experienced is kind of surprising. It was while I was travelling.
I've been to Atlanta and New Orleans in the middle of the summer and didn't find it any worse than Boston. Hot, humid, uncomfortable just like I'm used to here.
The hottest I've ever been was mid-summer in Washington DC and Toronto. Yes, Toronto. Canada. They really don't live in igloos there. I experienced 105 degrees with dew points in the 70's in both cities - and more than once in Toronto. Have you ever stepped outside and you're covered in sweat in 30 seconds? Ewwww.
I drove across Saudi rabia in a non-air conditioned car.
We closed the windows, because the air blowing in was like an oven. After a minute or two, we would be sweating so much, we;d open the windiows and it would feel refreshing for about a minute, then we would have to close them again, because at least in the car, we were in the shade. The road ran parallel to a pipeline, which was up on struts about 5 feet above the ground. From time to time we would go and sit under the pipeline---the only shade for hundreds of miles. Before we left, we were told that we could wrap a raw chicken in foil, and it would cook in the trunk of the car, so we tried it. When we got to Kuwait, the chicken was perfect. It takes about 15 hours to drive from Jordan to Kuwait.
For me, it had to be when I lived in Sacramento in the early 90s. At the beginning of July, the high got up to 115 degrees F. I was driving home from work about 4:20 in the afternoon that day, and the AC in my car running full blast wasn't even cooling me off!
The hottest temperature I have ever experienced is 99. Right here in Massachusetts, back in June. I had no problem with the heat. A lot of people were complaining, but I was waiting for that type of heat all winter. Even one of my teachers was complaining...a teacher that talked about moving to Georgia, I thought he liked the heat but it turns out he just likes to complain about the weather no matter what. A heat wave up north separates the people that really like the heat from the people that just say they do...they act like 2 days of 90+ degree weather is the end of the world. I don't experience much extreme heat, but I can't help it. I live in Massachusetts.
I may have experienced a higher temperature when I was younger, but when you're a kid, that's not the type of thing you remember.
Ahhh the day I was born, 106 degrees with 100% humidity. My ma and pa remind me every year about how miserable it was outside when I was born. My brother was born in February, the temperature that day was around 5 degrees and they had a huge snow storm. My sister on the other hand was born in September where it was a beautiful 65 degrees and sunny.
I've dealt with -20 before it stinks, feels like 10* to me though.
I drove across Saudi rabia in a non-air conditioned car.
We closed the windows, because the air blowing in was like an oven. After a minute or two, we would be sweating so much, we;d open the windiows and it would feel refreshing for about a minute, then we would have to close them again, because at least in the car, we were in the shade. The road ran parallel to a pipeline, which was up on struts about 5 feet above the ground. From time to time we would go and sit under the pipeline---the only shade for hundreds of miles. Before we left, we were told that we could wrap a raw chicken in foil, and it would cook in the trunk of the car, so we tried it. When we got to Kuwait, the chicken was perfect. It takes about 15 hours to drive from Jordan to Kuwait.
Holy crap that sounds like the most miserable thing anyone could possibly do.
Ahhh the day I was born, 106 degrees with 100% humidity. My ma and pa remind me every year about how miserable it was outside when I was born. My brother was born in February, the temperature that day was around 5 degrees and they had a huge snow storm. My sister on the other hand was born in September where it was a beautiful 65 degrees and sunny.
I've dealt with -20 before it stinks, feels like 10* to me though.
106 degrees with 100% humdity. You know you don't know what you're talking about? A dew point of 106 degrees? The highest recorded dew point was 95 degrees:
"A dew point of 35 °C (95 °F) was reported in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia at 3 p.m. July 8, 2003. The temperature was 42 °C (108 °F), resulting in an apparent temperature or heat index of 80 °C (176 °F).[2]"
-Wikipedia
A dew point warmer than body temperature (98f) would cause water to condense in your lungs drowning you anyhow. Thinking back to my birthday though it was a pleasant 67f on 31st August back in 80 something forgot the year. This was in North West England and not far from the scottish border and about 55*N.
Hottest temperature I experienced ever was 34c or may be 35c probably in England or France.
I didn't know that was possible. That produces a heat index of 243 degrees.
It's not possible. Air that hot cannot hold 100% humidity.
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