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In reply to the discussion: What is the hottest temperature you have endured? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)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.
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You're right. I walked out of our hotel in Hong Kong one August night at about 8 PM.
rsdsharp
Jun 2021
#24
If it was August 17, 1983, it hit 108. Still the all time record for Des Moines.
rsdsharp
Jun 2021
#18
A week here in Tallahassee when the temperatures were over 105, humidity 80-90%
csziggy
Jun 2021
#22
Middle teens 114-116, something like that, by my memory chip melted and I can't remember
Brother Buzz
Jun 2021
#32
today it wasa 96 and that is still TOO HOT FOR ME !!!! Gees, my poor tomato plants......
Trueblue1968
Jun 2021
#46
Even at that temperature my phone was telling me it was too hot and that it might shut down.
zuul
Jun 2021
#54
I spent some time in the middle east - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Iraq as well as a week in Djibouti
The Polack MSgt
Jun 2021
#55