So, what’s the highest and lowest temperatures you have lived in?
(My rules)
Not the highest and lowest you’ve ever been in, but in one calendar year, while living in the same location, what are your highs and lows?
Fahrenheit, please. I’m drinking beer and not capable of doing the “multiply by 9/5 and add 32” equation.
Wind chills don’t count.
Mine = growing up in Eastern Montana
Highest = 109 F
Lowest = -35 F
For score of 144.
Whistlepig
Rule 3 - Anybody who posts about not having been in freezing weather = javascript:smilie(’:wally’) It’s currently 7 below and I still have to walk the dog. I don’t want to hear how nice it is in Miami.
Growing up in Central CA, there were summer days of 14 days in a row of over 110, but it only gets down to 30 or so in the winters and only for a week at a time, tops.
But it’s a dry heat…
High: 125° F (Las Vegas, NV)
(and an outside temp of 112 humid ° F in Oxford, MI while I was
working in a foundry, sending the inside temperature a bit over 125° F)
Low: -18° F Detroit, MI
Ketchum ID. Probably about a 130 degree spread. I know I got to work outside one night at -38. Add in the breeze that night and it was down right chilly. Since some day or another in August would top 90 I get 130 or so.
Also, in 1995, it was -57 in Fairbanks, Alaska on Thanksgiving, where I got a bad bit of frostbite. Thankfully, there was no wind. Locals told me it was too cold to be windy, and besides, the inversion that caused the ultra low temperature allowed everyone to breathe frozen car exhaust for like a week. It wasn’t in the same place, but I remember a dreadfully hot day that summer in New York, in the upper 90’s with 95% humidity.
Highest: in the 100 and teens in Athens, Greece.
Lowest: several days in the -25 to -30 range between my hometown in da UP and my university days in Minneapolis.
If we’re talking all in the same place, that would be northern Ohio – high of 104, low of -23, giving me a 127.
But if we can use different places, it would be Richland, Washington one notable summer day for a high of 123, and still the same -23 from northern Ohio, for a total of 146. (That I’m aware of; I spent the first few years of my life on the coastal plains of southern India, so I may well have felt hotter, but don’t remember it.)
Most steadily miserably hot place? Sasebo, Japan in the summer – it was a steady 112-115 every single day for about two months. With about 99% humidity. I’ve felt hotter, but never as miserable.
