Coldest and hottest temperature you've experienced

[FCD]

Reading about the polar vortex that is hitting Canada and the US i thought about making this post.
Coldest : -46C ( -51 F ) When : January 1999 ,Where : Finnish Lapland.
Hottest : +42C ( 107 F ) When : July 2000, Where : Here in Spain. I actually had a heat stroke...

 

[Nick1994]

I was in Flagstaff, AZ once when I was a kid and it was around 20F.
Here in Phoenix this summer, 121F

 

[CarbonSteel]

+120°F while crossing the Mohave desert in 2009
-22°F while vacationing in Colorado in 2014

 

[BrocLuno]

Working in the desert years ago in So Cal in July 124*F.

On a road trip a few weeks ago, 19*F in Bishop.

 

[UncleDave]

-40 In Montreal Canada - The temp where farenheit and Celsius meet.

+124 in Lake Havasu Arizona

UD

 

[tig1]

-32F in Maine in 1976. +109F here in Illinois four years ago.

 

[simple_gifts]

An experiment was done in the 1800's verifying people (and dogs) can withstand temps of about 250F.

 

[FCD]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
An experiment was done in the 1800's verifying people (and dogs) can withstand temps of about 250F.

Finnish Saunas get up to about 195-200F, i'm not sure a human or a dog could withstand 250F for too long.

 

[BrocLuno]

Oh, I forgot, prolly standing in formation in winter at Fort Knox in a snow storm - 1975.

Prolly 10*F with the wind blowing the snow sideways

Cold enough that the snow was not sticking to anything, just tumbling along ...

 

[FCD]

I remember my eyes hurting literally the second i stepped outside that evening when it was -46 outside, it was i think the coldest week on record in Finland, and a new record low was set the next week at -51.5C ( -60F ), yet somehow nothing catastrophic happened, i don't think there was a single death reported.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Coldest,-4F. Hotetst,118F.

 

[bioburner]

Probably because they didn't find the bodies till July.

 

[bioburner]

Coldest was trying to ice fish north of Duluth, They said was in mid -4osF
Hottest was working to set up fireworks display in the middle of golf course, Mendota Heights, 104, and they had run the irrigation earlier so was like a sauna

 

[FCD]

Originally Posted By: bioburner
Probably because they didn't find the bodies till July.

Haha

 

[4WD]

-15C - Russia ... 110F - Texas

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
An experiment was done in the 1800's verifying people (and dogs) can withstand temps of about 250F.

Yeah, but for how long?

 

[simple_gifts]

Originally Posted By: FordCapriDriver
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
An experiment was done in the 1800's verifying people (and dogs) can withstand temps of about 250F.

Finnish Saunas get up to about 195-200F, i'm not sure a human or a dog could withstand 250F for too long.


Problem there is they are doing it in a humid environment thus thwarting evaporative cooling

Quote:

Yeah, but for how long?

7-10 minutes @ 260F and more than 30 minutes for the dog

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/07/26/138603776/when-does-a-person-start-to-boil

 

[dgn]

-10 wind chill standing outside supervising inmates when I was a Correctional Officer.

 

[Kuato]

Not sure of the exact coldness, but colder than -40 in Northern MT with wind chills -60C.

115F (46C) near Phoenix Arizona.

 

[BobFout]

-55F or -60F in Alaska, 115F in UT and NV.