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I don't recall the actual temperature because I usually go off the heat index. But its a tie between New York City and Orlando/Tampa with heat indices at or above 120° (it felt like I was trapped in a locked car in the middle of a parking lot) but I liked it. And on top of that I had to be outside all day in Tampa because I was at Busch Gardens.
The hottest I believe I've experienced was in July 2006 at 107. That's the warmest temperature we've had in my life that I remember occurring. A 5 day stretch was 105, 106, 107, 107, 106.
Note to self: Never go to the Middle East or Africa for any reason.
That’s an exaggeration if ever there was one. Much of the Middle East is just perfect in the winter - think of tops of 16˚C or 61˚F and lows around 8˚C or 47˚F around Israel and even in Baghdad - and even Africa is far from unbearable on its southern plateau at no more than 35˚C or 95˚F even in the very dry Kalahari. At Windhoek, which is typical of the area, the record high is only 36˚C.
The hottest temperature I have experienced was a man-made 46˚C or 115˚F during the catastrophic 2009 bushfires - for which Australia’s road and coal lobbies (and of course the car and mineral companies who fund them) should have had to pay the complete price not only in rebuilding the vegetated areas, but in achieving a rigid zero emissions target for Australia that of itself will do much more to solve the global warming crisis than anything Europe or Asia or North America do.
In Singapore, every day of the year is around 30˚C in the day and 25˚C at night, which is just as horrible as a 40˚C day which Australia’s dreadfully high greenhouse gas emissions have brought to Melbourne in increasing numbers. Melbourne had only one day of 40˚C combined:
between 1969 and 1976
between 1933 and 1938
Melbourne also had only three between February 1883 and one of the latest 40˚C days on record on March 8 of 1892. (It’s time for everybody abroad to campaign to sue Australia’s coal and road lobbies for producing the country’s appalling greenhouse emissions - it’s the sole means by which long-term inroads into global greenhouse emissions can be made!)
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