Fairbanks, AK in 1966, while I was in college there. 96 in the summer and -63 that winter. Total 159 and no wind chill adjustment.
While I was stationed in Bahrain things were generally warm (typically in the mid to high high 90’s during the summer). I do recall that while standing deckwatches in Oman the was in the range of 110 but the ambient temperature in the areas not under cover on the ship was said to be around 130. No one was allowed to stand watch for more than two hours at a time during the day even under the awnings. Whne we pulled in to Oman, some genius decided to have a nice marching band waiting on the pier to welcome us along with an honor guard. The band was playing broadway show tunes in the full heat of the late August sun. We, being the polite guests we were, stood there manning the rails in the withering heat listening to the catchy tunes…give my regards to broadway, etc…Of course the inevitible effects of the heat began to take their toll and members of each formation began to reel and drop…it suddenly occurred to me that the band would keep playing until we withdrew into the ship…and politeness demanded we remain in place until the band finished playing. After each side lost about 12 or 14 members to the heat, I guess the XO came to the understanding of what was going on (he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed) and he dismissed us. I always felt that the Omanis had the worse time of it though. All we had to do was stand there, they had to blow on those instruments. Musta been torture to hold up a tuba in that heat.
In December of that same year I was in McMurdo Station Antarctica. The average daily temperature there was…um…butt cold…always below freezing, usually hovered somewhere near zero but I don’t recall actual temperatures. Those were averages. daily temperatures could dip into the minus 20’s and 30’s. The funny thing is that the cold was much more bearable than the heat because of the humidity. In the Persian gulf the humidity was always very high, so the heat just seemed to envelope you like a hot wet blanket. The dryness of the air in Antarctica made the perception of the cold less severe. It wasn’t uncommon to see people jogging in shorts and Tshirts out to Willy Field on the ice road…
Las Vegas, NV: 120 F
Ann Arbor, MI: -15F
Grand total of 135. I have to say that the “dry heat” thing is for real. I didn’t feel like I was going to die in Vegas, like I often did when I spent a couple months in Haifa, Israel, where the summer heat probably didn’t often exceed 100F, but oy, the humidity. The air itself was thick and sticky and weighed one down. It makes me tired just to think of it.
Sorry, guess the caffine hadn’t kicked in…same place…same place…:smack:
balmy day in McMurdo coudl get all the way up to 34-35 degrees. I recall that we were concerned that if the heat wave continued, the ice holding the HF longwire towers up would thaw and they would …what’s the word I want?..sway?..tilt? but when a cold snap would go through …still I don’t suppose the swing was over 70 degrees while I was there (I didn’t winter over).
On the other hand in Bahrain in the winter it was downright chilly too…but I don’t recall it getting below freezing so the best swing I can manage is about (oh,…carry the 4, divide by 3.2…) 70 degrees either way.
In the same location:
108
14
score: 94
South Carolina
One year when I moved around a lot though, I experienced
105 (in TX)
-20 (in CO)
score: 125
Damn. You guys living in the great plains have the rest of us whipped in this game. But come to the South and play the humidity game and see if you can compete.
OK-I’ve got a bone to pick here.Several people have reported 120 and 125 temps in Las Vegas.
This past summer it got to 116 for several (1 or 2) days in the midst of about a 6 day period of 110+ days.The hottest I’ve experienced here in almost 20 years.
Weathercom lists the record at 116.I realize this is the airport temp and different parts of the valley vary by a couple degrees as evidenced by the local weather and my pc weather service (basically SE).
I’ve never heard of the 120s here,or for that matter anywhere but Death Valley in the US.
When did these 120s occur?My AC would have to run ** continuously ** throughout the day to keep up,as opposed to the 10 min.breaks or so it had at 116.
I delivered pizza one day, lunch rush, when it was 122 in Phoenix. Blah. Growing up in AZ I have seen plenty of 115-120 days. Hate em!
I think the coldest it’s ever gotten somwhere where I was living at the time was around 0. I’ve been in colder on vacations, but that doesn’t fit with the OP.
Score: 122.
Oh, and the 122 day in Phoenix was in 1990 if you want to check it out.
Yeah, but if you were going to actually die it would be in the dry heat.
Hey, if we’re going to break the rules and use multiple locations, then my high temp gets to be adjusted up to 112 for a score of 122.
Drags out Fahrenheit converter
Okay, I’ve always lived in Australia’s temperate zone, so I won’t be breaking any records.
122F when I lived near Cowra in Central Western New South Wales, and 26F when I lived in the mountains.
I prefer the heat.
Except for a 3 month student exchange, I have lived within an hour of where I live now my whole life and…
(without windchill!!)
about -55 to about 105 for a total of 160.
(or -49 to 38 if you prefer)
Yeah and if you add windchill it would be a lot colder, like today its -30 F with the windchill.
When I grow up I’m moving south!
Titan2, you’re right. I misremembered. I don’t know where I got that 120 number, I thought it was from a weather.com forecast before my trip, but I looked up a livejournal entry I wrote before I left and I see now that the forecast actually called for 108. Truly, a lovely and temperate climate you all have there.
Lovely and temperate?I supose if you’re a rattlesnake or something.
You know why it’s so dry?It’s so ** HOT **.Water molecules don’t stand a chance.
And if you have the misforune of standing in the sunshine by a concrete wall or something,it sure feels like about 150.
The only advantage I see in the summer is disposing of your unused drinks by just dumping them in the parking lot or wherever,and watching the wet spot dry in about a minute.Sodas don’t even leave a sticky spot 
But please drop the container in a trash receptacle.I’ve seen some people who apparently think the container dissolves too.
That was my sarcastic voice.
My roommate is from Vegas, so I hear crazy stories about the weird things that people do there all the time. Y’all are crazy. If god wanted people to live in the desert, he wouldn’t have made it so goddamn hot!
Well, I clearly remember hearing the weathermen reporting the 123 degree heat that summer day in Richland, Washington. It was race day, to be specific, the annual hydroplane races on the Columbia River, in summer of either 1972 or 1973. But it was that bone-dry desert heat that wasn’t nearly as bad as the typical summer day here in New Orleans now, where you know you’re living below sea level because it feels like you’re swimming in the air, it’s so humid!
TLD I don’t think the Aussies are going to have much of a chance of winning this little game.
High: 109
Low: 28
Total: 81
Yuma AZ-----128 (newspaper claimed it was 130 but I saw a thometer readt the one stated.
Frasier CO------ -36 (I knew it was cold when the hair in my nose broke and fell out when I tapped my nose).
TV
Cleveland Ohio
late June 1988-104
January 1994- -15
Yellowknife, NT: over the course of 8 years, the most extreme temperatures I remember are:
-56.2F (-49C)
100.4F (+38C)
(Converted here, a very handy site to have bookmarked if you grew up Celsius and moved to Imperial).
Thankfully, it’s very dry there. Once it hits -25 or so, you can’t tell if it’s any colder even if it goes to -40. Which it regularly does. By the same token, dry heat doesn’t bother me at all, but the humidity here is going to kill me.
Score: 156.6.