Yesterday, my INDOOR temperature was in the low 60s. That was all the furnace could achieve, running constantly. Today it’s up to 66.
like Chefguy and** Lemur866**, my record low was in Fairbanks…-58 F actual air temp, not even a windchill. I bundled up and walked around my apartment complex just so I could have bragging rights.
I’m not sure of the highest temp, but I’ve lived in Saudi Arabia so I am guessing prettydamnhot.
Lowest temp I ever experieced was -33 degrees Fahrenheit. That was in January 1976, at Ft. Devens, in Massachusetts. We had to walk a mile to class, at 6:00 AM. I nearly got frostbite.
highest was 106 degrees, in Nebraska of all places.
Yeah, Nebraska is an absolute bastard for both extremes. If we’re counting windchill I’ve been out in -40 deg trying to shovel six-foot drifts east of Lincoln, and 108 sounds about right (plus whatever the humidity factor was) for a bad summer.
-44 F is my lowest. Cable, WI back in 1992 or 1993. I had to go out in it frequently that night to start the car, lest it freeze forever. Edifying task.
+123 F is my highest, outside Desert Hot Springs, circa August 2008 or so. We hiked 3/4 of a mile to an oasis in that temperature. Interesting experience.
-40 F or so, when I lived in Alaska back in the late 70s.
118 F at Lake Mead one summer. At either extreme, nothing moved if it didn’t have to.
I’m not really sure about the coldest. Looking back at Chicago’s coldest days, the one that seems possible is January of 1994, where it was negative 21. Hottest was ~120 in a Middle Eastern summer.
On the low end -42°C (-44°F) in Winnipeg, MB
On the high end 51°C (124°F) in Lake Havasu City, AZ
A range of 93°C (168°F) is pretty good. However, I am curious what it is like to experience the +200°F to -100°F to +200°F range required to join the 300° club in Antarctica.
But it’s not so dry a heat certain times of year. When the monsoon gets flowing (usually in July and August) it can get pretty miserable. Last year seemed particularly bad - we had a few days with temps around 90 and dew points around 70, as well as days with temps around 105 and dew points in the mid-60’s. Those were pretty miserable days. Fortunately the 110+ days the dew point stayed pretty well behaved - low 50s or lower.
Oh, yes, I do realize that. I was actually surprised when I found out how wet it can get, but I haven’t experienced that part of year. I’m a seasons kind of person, with a preference to fall and winter, so I try to stay away from such places when I can. 
I may have related this before. During that week of crazy stupid low temperatures, the university continued to have classes. One morning, as I was leaving the dorm, I stood in the puddle of snow-melt in the Arctic entry while putting on my gloves, parka hood, etc., then walked outside. There was heavy ice fog and I just stood there in the -50+ cold looking at it. When I tried to start walking, I discovered that the wet bottoms of my shoes had frozen me to the sidewalk and I nearly fell on my face. It took some struggle to break myself loose.
-30 in Indiana and 117 in ca
yeah I went to a wedding and stayed about about 20 miles form the big easy …… humidity damn near killed me and I had a unpleasant rash in the shorts most of the time I was there … even though its 80s-90s there its worse than 116 in good old landscatter
my aunt whos wedding I went to came out for a funeral in august and complained it was too dry here lol
I seem to remember in elementary school the principal coming on the loudspeaker and saying that he was cancelling school due to wind chills outside of about -51F. This would have been Springfield, Illinois, c. 1980. Not for nothing, I have no idea what the air temperature was that day.
The hottest I remember being (although I can’t say for certain it was legitimately the hottest day I’ve ever lived through) was on the road to Wichita one summer day in my pickup truck without A/C. I remember having a cooler full of ice and bottled water with me, and finishing probably a dozen waters over the course of the three-hour journey. I arrived at my destination drenched in sweat. This would have been c. 1996.
Green River, Wyoming. -52 on the bank time/temp thingie
Death Valley. 110+, maybe up to 115.
117 in Wichita Falls, TX. Never will forget it. As well as I can take heat, that day will never be forgotten. Also experienced 100) 100 degree days or above for one year (2011) in same city becoming the first TX city to do so. Pretty bad when our grasslands are hotter than the West TX deserts.
Anybody that has the means, gets out of this city in the summer, generally that means staying in the CO mtns for the summer months before returning.
In February, 1971, the reported actual temperature on Great Lakes Naval Training Center was -52 degF a couple of times (but they didn’t record wind chill, maybe because the wind off Lake Michigan was just too much to measure–it was nasty).
In August, 1985, I managed to live through several hours of 122 degF at Fort Hood, TX (Crittenberger Range). That was tough.
In January, 1985, though, I had found myself at Fort Riley, KS, and the new (at the time) Weather Channel reported -29 degF for most of a dreadful day out on the helicopter/tank firing range. The wind was far from calm, to boot.
So, not precisely to the OP question, I have, during the space of seven months, endured a temperature swing of 151 degrees Fahrenheit.
I can’t give you any exact dates but I used to live in Sacramento during the 1970s and I’m fairly sure there were a few summer days where the highs got above 110° F.
As for lows, I now live in Eastern Washington so I think there were a few times over the last 40 years when I ventured outside with the temperature being below -20° F.
Scott Base, Antarctica -52 Celsius (-61 Fahrenheit)
Inland north Queensland +48 Celsius (118 Fahrenheit)
The Celsius century, 100 between hottest and coldest.
I walked my mail route in temperatures as high as 103 F and as low as -24. Neither was pleasant but -24 was frightening.