What is the hottest temperature you have endured?

[rurallib]

for us it was 107 in Des Moines Iowa when we took the family to the state fair.
Fortunately we had motel reservations that had good AC

[CanonRay]

1. 116 in Phoenix

[rurallib]

3. Ah - Arizona - we have a family member in Tucson

so I have empathy for you

[CanonRay]

5. I spent a year there for work in 91-92

[yellowdogintexas]

38. I think FW had a 116 degree day back in 1998

so that was the hottest.

We had just moved into our house and I came home to no AC. It was HOT ! We are fortunate to have a massive shade tree which hangs over most of our house. It kept the house from overheating.

I have been in AZ when it was over 110 though.

[WheelWalker]

2. 113, yesterday

[rurallib]

4. pacific north west?

[WheelWalker]

7. Oakland, Oregon

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Back in the 80's I was wandering through the Desert Botanical...

Gardens oustside Phoenix when a sign said it was 115.

So dry, no one was dripping sweat. It boiled right off us. But, we did learn a lot about hydration

[CanonRay]

8. I bet I have the biggest temperature spread

116 I Phoenix in 1991 and -48 in Steamboat Springs in 2004. 164 degrees.

[rurallib]

9. that will be tough to beat

I have 107 and -40 in Ontario Canada for a 147 difference

[DesertRat]

10. 122 in Phoenix. 6/26/1990

[ChazII]

60. See Desert Rat's post

Same hot time, same hot city.

[Faux pas]

11. ...

120 Chino, CA. Yesterday 104 Hoquiam, WA. I'm beginning to think the SoCal weather has followed me from there, to the Oregon Coast and now to here. Yikes and WTF?!?!

[Tomconroy]

12. It's not just the temperature,

The humidity and the temperature combined can really do you in.

[rsdsharp]

24. You're right. I walked out of our hotel in Hong Kong one August night at about 8 PM.

The temperature was still about 95, and so was the humidity. My cotton shirt and cotton pants immediately stuck to me.

[Marthe48]

13. I think it was 106 in Kansas City

We were driving though in a car with no a/c. We had wet towels laying on our bare skin.

[lastlib]

31. I've seen it hit 115 here...

1980 had a brutal heat wave.

[Marthe48]

59. I think it was August 1983

The other visits we made to Colorado were in spring or winter months.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. USMC 29 Palms .... Low 120's. Was the battalion armorer.

Had to inventory a bazillion weapons in a secure area w no a/c. Pretty sure I died and somehow came back to life.

[LizBeth]

15. 115?

[Hassler]

16. 111 yesterday, in Eugene

[Boxerfan]

17. Today @ 114.

At least I wasn't a passenger in the back of a camper at 107. That was my previous record at 10 years old 68 going through Yuma Az. on the way to Houston family vacation or torture not sure. Too cheap to buy Airline tickets is the reality and he had ample funds.

I do remember trying barefoot (nope) at a rest stop and ended up melting my flip flops a bit walking on the sunny asphalt.

[rsdsharp]

18. If it was August 17, 1983, it hit 108. Still the all time record for Des Moines.

We probably passed each other at the fair that day. Not the wisest thing I’ve ever done.

My all time personal high was 116 in Needles, CA in August 1962. We were on a night train from LA, and there was a derailment ahead of us, stranding us in Needles for 16 hours. We were told not to leave the train because we would leave “any minute.” No diner car, and every other car used its ice for water, not AC. Guess which kind of car I was on.

[SharonClark]

21. I wonder if 1983 was the year we walked in the

Iowa State Fair parade dress as suffragists in support of the ERA. Wearing antique long dresses and long sleeves, we were a soggy mess at the end.

[electric_blue68]

19. 107 in NYC - may have been dry, and 102 but w Humidity at 108+?

Luckily I have AC but usually use sparingly except for the hottest days.

Tip for no AC hot days - take about 18" inch long set of paper towels still unseparated and fold them in thirds lengthwise, wet, partly wrung, curved close to your neck size, and put in freezer.
Later take out, and put around your neck near a fan! The freeze will go away quickly, but the wet will stay cold, then cool for a while. Reuse. It works!

I have 2 in my freezer right now. Doing this for ?5+ years
now. 🙂👍

[I_UndergroundPanther]

26. I get a bandanna

Grab some ice cubes
Wrap them in the bandanna wet the bandanna and tie it around my neck.

Keeps me cool for a few hours.

The way that works is called the peltier effect. It basically cools your blood as it goes through your carotid artery,so you circulate cooled blood,than you become cool.

I'm heat intolerant so summer really sucks for me, but an iced bandanna makes it better.

[lastlib]

30. I learned a trick from my grandfather....

working in hay fields in summer, he'd go down to a creek and soak a shirt, wring it out enough that it wasn't dripping too much, and wear it wet. on those hot summer days, it'd dry out pretty fast, and in a couple hours, he'd have to do it again.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. get a big container of ice and put it in front of a fan so the

fan blows over the ice. This actually works. (my grandparents used to do this in their car when they drom from Kansas to KY and back before cars were air conditioned. They put the ice in the center of the car, where the air vents could blow over it. My mom said it worked. )

[electric_blue68]

45. Yeah, I keep forgetting that! Was thinking of putting one..

...of those frozen gel containers in my freezer for carrying around food for a while in a insulated bag. 👍

In fact i'll try it tonight since nce my AC is in my
living room, and just a fan in bedroom though I sometimes blow AC air down round the corner of my long hallway. It has worked. 👍

[yellowdogintexas]

40. take cool showers and lie down under the ceiling fan.

When we were kids we used to spray ourselves down with the sprinkler

[Harker]

20. 450 degrees.

It was only one finger, though.

[csziggy]

22. A week here in Tallahassee when the temperatures were over 105, humidity 80-90%

My husband had flown to Minneapolis to see his grandmother for the last time so I was taking care of 25+ horses by myself. Carrying feed & hay, mucking out the stalls, hauling manure away from the barn, mowing the pastures, checking the water troughs, fixing fences etc.

One of the days I simply jumped into one of the water troughs. It didn't really help that much - the water in the trough was warm and it was so humid the water in my clothes and hair didn't evaporate to cool me. Life in Florida is so much fun.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I lived in Tucson 1962-1968.

Then in Phoenix 1983-1987. So I endured far too many days well above 100 degrees. And dry heat? Spare me. It's fucking hot. Especially if you don't have an air conditioned car, which few people had in the 1960s, even in Arizona.

I had a VW bug, and was working for the phone company in the afternoon and taking a class at the University in the morning. One week we had a heat wave. It was over 110 degrees every day for a week, and there was only one day that did not go above 115. Between driving in that VW, then having to walk about four blocks from where we parked our cars to the phone company at high noon, I wound up with all the symptoms of heat exhaustion for a couple of days. Not fun.

[GoCubsGo]

25. 121 in the Yucatan.

It was really dry, so it didn't feel as hot as it was, although it was plenty hot.

[Iggo]

27. 119. Summer. Tucson. Somewhen between '05 and '10, I'm thinking.

Loved it.

[lastlib]

28. I've been in a barn stacking hay at 140 degrees.

"Brutal" doesn't begin to express it.

But ya gotta get it in.....

[rurallib]

33. Spent a couple days in the hayloft myself helping dome friends in the summer

you just can't get enough water to drink

[lastlib]

41. Amen to that, brother!

[Ocelot II]

29. 112 in South Dakota some years ago.

Driving through SD in a car without air conditioning, we got so dehydrated that nobody had to go to the bathroom for like 8 hours. Finally stopped near the Badlands for supper, drank water like camels.

[rurallib]

34. Many people are surprised that some of the hottest heat indexes recorded

in the US are in North and South Dakota - those plains have nothing to break the heat.

[Brother Buzz]

32. Middle teens 114-116, something like that, by my memory chip melted and I can't remember

It was a 'Dry Heat' in California's Sacramento Valley

Possibly the most uncomfortable temperature I endured was a mere 95° in Maine. In your face, hot and sticky!

[ZenDem]

35. 118 in Phoenix...

...on the back of a Harley. The worst part came when we were pulled over. Standing on the side of the road in the sun...the heat rising from the pavement...the smell of hot exhaust, etc. I almost passed out. The cop took one look at me and told my ex, "Get her out of the sun" and let him off with a warning.

[Trueblue1968]

36. YESTERDAY .... PORTLAND, OREGON .... 115 DEGREES

[rurallib]

37. I hear it is cooling down a bit

good luck

[Trueblue1968]

46. today it wasa 96 and that is still TOO HOT FOR ME !!!! Gees, my poor tomato plants......

[Wolf Frankula]

42. 120 in Djanet, Algeria

119 in Windhoek, Namibia.

Wolf

[ProfessorGAC]

43. 110 & Humid In Mumbai

I was there for 4 days and every trip outdoors was oppressive. And I was only around 50 at the time. (I think it was 2007 or 2008). The other two times I was there, it was nothing like that 2nd trip.

[rurallib]

44. I have always heard that it never cools down at night there

and with little A/C it makes sleeping very hard. True or not?

[ProfessorGAC]

47. At Least That Week, Yes

I was in a very nice hotel, so AC was not an issue.
The control room of the site at which I was advising had AC, for the computers. But, it was only about 6 by 6, so most of the observation was out of that room.
6am, 6pm,..brutal!

[Generic Brad]

48. 112 in Los Angeles

I did not have air conditioning then. It was horrible.

[zanana1]

49. I'm going to blaspheme by saying...

I hate summer.

[Danmel]

51. You & me both zanana

I like the long days but the rest of it, not so much.

[rurallib]

57. I will join in to say I hate summer with a passion.

don't know why I have since I was a kid - the heat, the bugs, the humidity blah, blah blah

[Danmel]

50. 110ish in Oklahoma City

I honestly don't know how people live surg that kind of heart over sustained periods of time. At least they have AC.

[zuul]

52. 102 in Death Valley

[rurallib]

53. that sounds almost cool compared to some of the temps

Death Valley has recorded.

[zuul]

54. Even at that temperature my phone was telling me it was too hot and that it might shut down.

I can't imagine 117 degrees!

[The Polack MSgt]

55. I spent some time in the middle east - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Iraq as well as a week in Djibouti

All of them were hot AF.

But I did a technical survey for a radio relay site 60 or so KM from Merv (Mary) Turkmenistan, in early September of 15. The high temps were consitently 120+ that whole week

Not really sure of the exact temps because the thermometer on our building only went to 50c (about 122) and it was maxed out by 1600-1630 every day

Hotter than Satan's ulcers

[rurallib]

56. If there were winners(?) here I'd vote for yours

holy hell

[NotASurfer]

58. 114 driving through Bakersfield

Texas was a higher misery level, though; temperatures just over 100 with high humidity and even at 3AM it was sometimes in the high 80s. Though the fire ants seemed happy with it.