For me, it would probably be 115 F, last labor day weekend in Palm Springs CA.
And the rest of you?
I was living in Arizona (Phoenix) the day it reached the record of 122 F. That was in 1990.
There have been a few nights some summers when I’ve had to sleep with frozen water bottles in my bed to keep cool. It must have been at least 35 degrees Celsius, plus suffocating humidity.
It consistently hits the upper 110s-lower 120s here outside of Lancaster.
Which is bad, but still doesn’t feel as bad as Orlando in August.
Summer Yuma, Arizona in the mid 120s. You inhale and the inside of your nose burns. You actually feel the soles of your shoes melting. My parents were living there and they didn’t understand why I didn’t want to move down.
124 in the shade in Death Valley back in the 70’s. Damn, that was hot. Oven hot.
Which means my personal outdoor environmental temperature range is 169 degrees! (Lowest experienced -45 Fahrenheit.)
Mid 130s in Kuwait.
125 F, Redding CA in the mid '70s. Also one day at 122 F in Sacramento CA during the late '80s. Redding was okay since we were vacationing at Lake Shasta at the time. Sacramento sucked.
For pure misery, though, I have to nominate Tokyo in the late '60s. During the summers the temp would be at 100 F with 99% humidity or vice versa. Add some really spectacular smog which reduced visibility to near zero (assuming you could see anything out of your weeping red eyes) and you have environmental conditions Dante could never have foreseen.
Gila Bend, Arizona. Close to 120 F.
Qatar: 127 *F, 95% Humidity. I have the e-mail to prove it.
Tripler
Quoth Robin Williams, “Hotter’n a snakes ass in July!”
Not very. Only 115º or 120º in Lancaster, CA. Still more comfortable than New Orleans in August.
My highest temperature has been around 38ºC (100ºF), and that’s way too friggin’ hot for me. You guys and your 120º temps would kill me!
(But keep the hot stories coming - it helps alleviate the killing cold here. 
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Like Qadgop, mine was Death Valley. 120°+F in the shade. But that was only for an afternoon. We spent a week sailing on Lake Mead once where it averaged over 110° every day. No air conditioning, sleeping in tents, making an ice/beer run every 3 hours, bloodwarm water in the lake, so that was no help. Fun times.
I’ve got a picture of me standing under the Valley Bank Building on Central Avenue in downtown phoenix where the temp on the digital display read 123. Nuff said.
How 'bout that -30’s (celcius) temp today, eh?
I’m in Grande Prairie, and at the moment, I’m looking at the current temp, which is -37celcius (-35F)
(we were getting a wind chill of around -44*C when there was wind)
I tried plugging in the block heater on my truck, this evening, and the cord snapped off, it’s so cold! :eek: :smack:
BTW, the hottest I’ve seen is probably just shy of 40celcius, or the 100F range
(I know, I know, small change, compared to you southerners)
S^G
I was in Sevilla Spain in August of 2003 when it reached 117°. No pool nor A/C in my hotel, tiny hot crowded concrete streets, haze coming off the rivers…then everything shut down for Siesta so we had to sit in our no-A/C hotel for three hours. Good times.
115, Giza by the pyramids, following 112 in Athens. Mercifully it was only around 100 in Jerusalem.
Probably in Sydney on New Year’s Day 2006, when the temperature reached 45.
105 F, and I hope I never feel anything hotter!
126° F in Lake Havasu City, AZ in about 1998. But it was a dry heat.