# Highest/lowest Temperatures You've Lived In **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561 "2004-01-04T01:34:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/1 "2004-01-04T01:34:47Z")
So, what’s the highest and lowest temperatures you have lived in? (My rules) 1. 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? 2. Fahrenheit, please. I’m drinking beer and not capable of doing the “multiply by 9/5 and add 32” equation. 3. 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. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/2 "2004-01-04T01:47:38Z")
Can’t beat that. Best I have is from growing up in PA. high: around 100, not sure, but we’ll call it 98. low: -10 score: a pathetic 108. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/3 "2004-01-04T02:19:11Z")
Maybe our Antartic Dopers who are members of the 200 Club will post here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/4 "2004-01-04T02:27:07Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/5 "2004-01-04T02:35:40Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/6 "2004-01-04T02:36:47Z")
**NoClueBoy** , I may be wrong, but I thought that was the _300_ club. Anyway, I would love to be a member. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/7 "2004-01-04T02:37:11Z")
(The Oxford and Detroit temps were the same year. Oxford is 34 miles north of Detroit.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/8 "2004-01-04T02:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RotorHead \* > **NoClueBoy** , I may be wrong, but I thought that was the _300_ club. Anyway, I would love to be a member. :smack: I’ve never been very good with names. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/9 "2004-01-04T03:02:17Z")
Highest - 111.2 degrees Lowest - (-81.4) degrees (witha a wind chill, I might add) Totoal score - 192.6. Location: Regina, SK, Canada ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/10 "2004-01-04T03:40:56Z")
Highest: 122 in Saudi Arabia. Lowest: -27 where I live now. Score: 149 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/11 "2004-01-04T04:21:49Z")
In SoCal, I’ve experienced many days of 120+ heat. In winter, it hits a chilly 32. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/12 "2004-01-04T04:32:14Z")
Dallas, TX! Do I really have to say any more?? Well, I believe the high today was 76 or so. But, it’s a DRY heat. Occasionally, it gets cold…very, very, cold. And then: it’s very, very, hot the rest of the time. One or two weeks out of the year, we enjoy “Fall” and “Spring,” with lovely temperatures, and hailstorms/tornados. “Winter” brings brutal ice storms OR 76 degree weather. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/13 "2004-01-04T06:49:49Z")
For me: 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. It just don’t happen like that where I live now… ---
**Author:** ![Dryfreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@Dryfreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryfreeze)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/14 "2004-01-04T06:57:14Z")
Mosul, Iraq: 131 July 4th and prolly got hotter but my thermometer busted 21 - Last night. ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/15 "2004-01-04T07:12:23Z")
I want to be the loser here. Southeast Florida - 21 was the lowest in 1996, and I’ll submit 98 as a safe guess for the highest that year. Difference of 77. I could only hope to one day be a member of the 300 club, or the 90 club. ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/16 "2004-01-04T07:17:04Z")
Never mind, I take it back. It got down to 2 degrees one year while I was living in Texas, and up to probably 100 (although that’s also a guess). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/17 "2004-01-04T09:15:28Z")
101 High -13 Low. Long Island, NY, 1993. 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. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/18 "2004-01-04T11:11:25Z")
Omaha NE in the mid 80’s, -25 to about 105, and Wichita KS, -20 to 110. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/19 "2004-01-04T15:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xayoz306 \* > \*\*Highest - 111.2 degrees > Lowest - (-81.4) degrees (witha a wind chill, I might add) > > Totoal score - 192.6. > > Location: Regina, SK, Canada \*\* Wind chill doesn’t count, IMO. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561/20 "2004-01-04T16:02:32Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highest-lowest-temperatures-youve-lived-in/222561.md?page=2)