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What was the coldest and hottest day you can remember?

Fredflintstone

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Oh boy,

The coldest day I can remember is when I was doing some business in Grande Prairie, Alberta in December, 1988. The temperature hit minus 65 c which is I think also minus 65 F. Forget the car starting and it was plugged in. It was so cold, the steering wheel shattered on my old Ford Tempo when I touched it with my warm hands. There was a wind. The temperature with wind chill made it even colder.

The hottest day I remember was in July in Las Vegas. The temperature hit 126 F. I remember going outside the Casino only to be welcomed with such intense heat I had trouble breathing. I think the soles of my shoes were starting to melt. Just for fun, I brought down a can of Pam spray and two eggs to see if I would fry them on the pavement. Yes, it worked...Sunny side up anyone?

So, what was the coldest day and hottest day you remember?


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The highest I remember is 112 here in Sacramento maybe 10 or 15 years ago. Coldest is a tie at 15 below in Ely, NV and Whitefish, MT.
 

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Anchorage, Alaska in February of 1979. Something like -40F. Never been so cold in my life. Hottest day might have been in Somalia in Summer of 1982, although I don't know the temperature. I just know it felt hotter than any day when I lived in Las Vegas - it was too hot to breathe. There is no heat like desert heat.

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Many years ago at our home -30 degrees actual temp. Heavy snow on the roof. Ice back up. Leaks. Loud banging in the attic. Nightmare.

As for heat, stuck in a plane on the tarmac in Phoenix in 120 degrees. Too hot to take off.
 

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My hottest was on a CA vacation. We were in the Mojave in august and the temp was 121. The coldest was a day we were in Burlington VT before a week up in the mountains. The all time low for VT was hit in the northeast kingdom. In Burlington it hit -42. I will say that that morning there was ice fog on Lake Champlain. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. It is formed on calm very cold mornings where the humidity instead of frost on the ground is so light it hangs in the air. Think beautiful sunny day with a northern light like shimmering curtains on the lake.
 

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135 heat index in Tulsa, OK was my hottest, don't know coldest but nowhere near anything else being said! I recall very well as I thought my car air conditioner was broken (was not), and, while I love the heat, it's the only day I've ever had to come inside due to heat. Started to really feel bad and knew I had hit the limit.

Apparently it's pretty wimpy though as I read the worlds highest ever was in Saudi Arabia at 178 heat index, can't imagine.
 
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I remember it being 111 in Chicago in the early 70’s. I was the catcher on my little league team. It was really hot with all that gear on.

I remember a -32 in Wisconsin about 20 years ago. I only pay attention to actual temps. It was cold but just another day.
 

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In the Tidewater VA area it was one day in January 2014 it was only 6 degrees. Not including the wind chill factor. It was very and I mean very cold.

I can remember also, one year going to Vegas in July it was only 105 degrees (dry heat, Right ). It was hot and humid. I vowed never, never again will I go to Vegas in the summer time.
Thank you for the A/C at the resort.
 

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35 below for multiple days when I lived in Calgary. I owned a Volvo and had to take the battery into the house every night but it always started just fine...

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There may have been colder and hotter days but these two dates stick in my mind.
It was December 23, 1998, my birthday and my last year teaching. It was a regular attendance day for the morning and student assembly for the afternoon and 35 below wind chill. I got assigned parking lot duty, patrolling the student parking lot for any funny business for hours. But maybe it should be the time we went out on strike in mid January, and for 17 days had to picket out on the highway, one day during a blizzard, but every day bitterly cold. The people in the town felt sorry for us and brought us in. My picture was on front page of newspaper, I was so bundled up I was mistaken for the abominable snowman.
It was July 1984 in Sun City Arizona. It was 118, we were visiting my in laws, they would not use the air conditioning and set the thermostat for 88, we had cans of coke in our station wagon and they exploded.
 

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The hottest actual temperature that I remember was, in all places, Bismarck, ND. It was a day or two before July 4th and it hit 113F I believe. And this was not dry, desert heat -- that was with humidity and was absolutely miserable.

Growing up in northern MN, we would normally have a cold snap most winters where it got down to -35F to -45F below, but we were equipped to handle it usually. However, I do recall one brutal cold snap.

I was attending college in Fargo, ND and there was a 5-day cold snap where the high temperature of the day did not break -20F, and lows were in the -30F to -40F range. I was living in the dorm so my car, a less-than 2 month old '89 Ford Escort GT, was sitting in the parking lot with no access to plug in the block heater.

Normally during the week I had no need for the car since I was on campus, but on Saturday I had to get to my job at a computer store. It was -32F when I headed out to the parking lot to try and start my car. I gently opened the door and got in, fully aware that the pieces of the interior could easily crack/shatter in this cold. The starter barely was turning over the 4-cylinder engine and -- ignition! It felt and sounded like it was just hitting on one or two cylinders at first, and some loud wining noises at first as the engine strained to idle. I was totally surprised it started!

I let it warm up for a good 10-15 minutes before attempting to put it in gear (5-speed manual transmission). That was the next issue -- the oil in the transmission was like molasses and just getting it into 1st gear was a challenge. Slowing started moving forward and then another issue. When it is that cold, tires will freeze and the "flat spot" where the tires were resting on the ground make for a very rough ride. Thump, thump, thump as the tires rotated. What a crazy morning, but I made it to work and was very impressed with my little Escort!

Kurt
 
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Warmest weather was 117 degrees by noon in 1990 while working on a house. We would start at 5 am and be quit at 11 am during this heat wave.

Coldest weather was - 21 with a 40 mph wind while working on an emergency repair of a roof in the 90's. I had 6 guys working on this taking turns every 20 minutes on the roof and 40 minutes in the trucks warming up. I thought I had frostbite but lucky for me it was just a bit of frost nip.

Since the mid 90's I don't remember the weather ever getting too extreme in Central Washington. The weather here has become kind of mildish for a four season climate. We had a record snowfall in the 90's causing many roofs to fail. In the 90's we had record winds that snapped power poles and fell hop yards. I guess we have had climate change but it seems to be the good kind.

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Coldest: Minneapolis, -34 F, early 1970s, tied for all-time coldest temperature ever recorded there. The high that day was -15 F.
Hottest: Palm Desert, 120 F, 2018 and 2019.
 

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-20F in Steamboat Springs for a few days in a row. If the truck started, I went skiing since it is warmer up on the mountain than down in the valley where I lived. If it didn’t, back in the house.

Hottest was 110F at an “undisclosed location” out west.

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6 degrees in Lake Tahoe (this Southern Ca girl has no clothing for those temps) and 117 in Palm Desert.
 

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Here is a slight variation. The coldest I have ever spent in a sleeping bag is -10.
 

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Oh, my, I can't imagine going to the Middle East In August unless I had to. Whenever we head that way it's in the winter, when we want to find heat and see some new sights.
 

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I recall one day as a teenager. I had just showered and combed through my long hair. My mother sent me out in the yard for something and as I was running back up to the house I could hear little a little sound..my hair had frozen into strands from the recent comb and were clinking. It was like little bells.
 

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Oh, my, I can't imagine going to the Middle East In August unless I had to. Whenever we head that way it's in the winter, when we want to find heat and see some new sights.

Unfortunately both were business trips and I was not given a choice of destination or season.
 

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-21 in Marquette MI. Windchills were close to -75. My highest temp is only around 105 degrees, but it was a humid 105.
 

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Being a CALIFORNIA girl, born and raised, and having an aversion to cold weather, I have nothing to compare to those extremes.
 

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Being a CALIFORNIA girl, born and raised, and having an aversion to cold weather, I have nothing to compare to those extremes.

Guess you haven’t been to Death Valley yet:cool:

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