Thaiis Thei 𓁟What is the hottest temperature you have experienced?
Please boost to increase sample size.
47 to 50C
45 to 46C
40 to 44C
35 to 39C
Poll ended at .
I can't vote in my own poll but mine is 48C in Melbourne.
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Helen Pugh@Oozenet But it was Death Valley so...!
cytokine_storm@Oozenet 45C in Newcastle, Australia. Also Geraldton Xmas day 2021. 45C is not an everyday thing in the major Australian capitals but it happens occasionally.
Donnie Narco@Oozenet 116F (47C) in Arizona, USA
CHB@Oozenet Without relation to location the questions is fairly vague. I for example have experienced 47-50 degrees C, but that was in the desert in northern Afghanistan. Not close to where I normally have been living.
TeflonTrout@stadsplanering @Oozenet yup, and my max of 55c was in Kuwait en route to Iraq. It's HOT over there folks
@Oozenet hottest was off your chart at 135f/55c in 2007. That was in Kuwait, don't remember the month
standev@TeflonTrout @Oozenet I voted 47-50 but have also been >50.
Kassil@Oozenet It's briefly hit 50C here, a few times, but that's the Desert Southwest; it's definitely more frequently hot, if not as hot as those spikes _yet_, and the winters aren't as cold.
Antonius Marie ⚧@Oozenet I voted 40-44 since that's the hottest I've experienced all time (we were visiting relatives in the US).
However, let's go with anecdote!
Sweden, 1994. Me and my mom was in Stockholm one particular day, which was the hottest either of us had ever experienced. It was 30C
Last summer we had a week of higher-than-30 temperatures (I think max of 32 or so)
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@Oozenet I live in England so some of these temperatures are rarely reached and my personal experience is only in low 30s (just below the poll option), but there have been areas reaching high 30s last year..
Jen M@Oozenet Just curious what your country of reference is. South Texas has been hovering around 39 every day for over a week.
Barbara Monaco@Oozenet 119⁰ F (over 48⁰ C)
Palm Springs, CA June 2021. Dry heat but unbearable.
Palm Springs, CA June 2021. Dry heat but unbearable.
Ashley Porciuncula@Oozenet A humid 45.5. You actually can't function outdoors, it's like wading through hot bath water.
opal 🌙@Oozenet voted 47 to 50C, but I grew up in Phoenix, AZ, so... 
i live in the midwest US now, and in the five years i've been here i think we've only hit around 33C, but it sure feels like there's *more* of those days every summer
Imperator Nevadicus@Oozenet @Barbramon1 119°F or a little over 48°C in Las Vegas 1999 or 2000. I’ve lived in Vegas since then so I’ve felt a lot of heat.
Diego Beghin@Oozenet Something like 42C in Rio, which is weirdly not that much more than the max temp I had in Brussels (40)
vinjii@Oozenet Maybe I shouldn’t have voted because mine was Death Valley and an actual temperature in a normal place would have been 40 to 44.
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⛵️@Oozenet Something like 39-42C, in a swamp in Maryland, so humidity as high as it can go. Heat indexes toward that 47 to 50C range or higher. This was as a kid through the aughts and teens
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Sheepnik@Oozenet We hit 35°C last year, on the west coast of Wales in the UK. The average high temperature in the summer here is about 20°C.
alternative_be✅🖖🏻@Oozenet 41,8°C was the highest temperature ever measured in Belgium, in the community of Begijnendijk in 2019. In my area it was 40°.
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Cargo engine repair at Koweit
Cargo engine repair at Koweit
GreatIrishElk@Oozenet I was going to say none of the above, but then I remembered being in Italy when I was like, ten and (at the time) it was the hottest summer they had had in a hundred years.
التنينوكس@Oozenet if I remember correctly it was something like 51 C or 52 C in Marrakech.
Benjamin Eunice@Oozenet So, the interesting thing about me is that because I live in Louisiana, and was born and raised here, we generally sit in the upper 30's in the summer regularly, and when we get heat waves it ends up at around 40C. The ocean and humidity tends to keep the temperature regulated to an extent, but heat domes like the one we're experiencing right now is really problematic because of the humidity getting the heat index as high as the upper 40's in some places. Having almost received a heat stroke from this kind of heat(ironically while bicycle commuting to push for less car dependency and thus less emissions), heat indexes are no joke. Stay safe out there, y'all!
Oren Lew@Oozenet what kind of eurocentric poll is this to not include above 50°
Richard Luciano@Oozenet
51°C actually in the Grand Canyon in 1995
51°C actually in the Grand Canyon in 1995
Gaëlle@Oozenet 49 in the Sahara desert...
Kaiyalai@Oozenet between reaching into memories from summer hiking trips twenty-odd years ago, and converting CF, I could be misremembering, but I *think* it was probably somewhere in the 46.x~47.x range.
Chose 45-46 on the poll to be safe.
Chose 45-46 on the poll to be safe.
Solarbird 
@Oozenet 49°C in Richland, Washington - on stage in partial sun. I was playing a fair with a band (Leannan Sidhe) and I personally hit stage with a set of ice packs loosely sewn onto the back of my stage outfit just to get through the set.
(It was like that the whole weekend and I spent all day every day when not on stage in the aid tent getting iced down by their medics after almost blacking out from heat exhaustion day one. I'm heat sensitive and extremely cold tolerant so it was an absolute nightmare gig. They changed the fair date after that to avoid the hottest part of the summer.)
Temerity@Oozenet 120 Fahrenheit once in slab city California in August. We sought refuge in the shade with an old man who told us about aliens and ran his camp on dozens of solar panels hooked up to car batteries. My friend was visiting and they'd never seen a real desert before so I had to show them.
Kat A Klysm 
@Oozenet @BillySmith mine was 40-44, but I also live somewhere very humid. It’s currently 34 out, but feels like 40 🥵
Billy SmithIt's the difference between the WetBulb Temperature and the DryBulb Temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Appropedia has some idea's:
https://www.appropedia.org/Evaporative_cooling_(Practical_Action)
@BillySmith @Oozenet I just recently heard about it, but I can’t find any wet bulb readings for my area. All I know is it’s hot, it’s humid, and going outside is like walking in to a wet, wool blanket.
It might be worth checking if your local meteorological service measures them.
Also, as the USA media thrives on click-bait headlines, just asking about those levels of temperature will get them to generate headlines publicising this. :D
@BillySmith @Oozenet that’s a good idea. Although heat and humidity is far from unusual in Florida. The news doesn’t start freaking out until we top 100 F (just under 38 C).
Neurone@Oozenet Córdoba July 2008. 44 degrés Celsius.
Grant42.3°c in Normandy, France.
Nerdicus@Oozenet what are these numbers in American?
Jarjan (He/Him)@Oozenet
48C in the shade, North-west Nigeria. No airco, not fun.
48C in the shade, North-west Nigeria. No airco, not fun.
BlackDogActual
Linh Pham@Oozenet Somewhere around 115F (~46C) during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome
Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021
One of, if not the, worst heat wave in the region’s modern records impacted the Pacific Northwest of the United States and western Canada during late June 2021, not just breaking records but smashing them over an incredibly hot four-day period.
JiSe@Oozenet ~35 (Finland)
~80-110 (in Sauna) :P
~80-110 (in Sauna) :P
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grin@Oozenet I have experienced 850 °C in a small furnace, but it doesn't have a category. I am not sure my experience being under the sun (5700 K) counts? 😆
RRB@Oozenet Lived in Phoenix, AZ for many years. Also traveled through Neeedles, CA a few times.
4bz@Oozenet help, someone convert this to freedom units for one of two countries in the world that aren't metric
ehurtley 
@Oozenet >50C.
I experienced 124°F (51C) in Arizona in the 1990s. The *OVERNIGHT LOW* temperature was above 37C (100°F) for three straight days.
@ehurtley NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
☀️LightOfNight🌙@Oozenet 51.1 actually, Hoover Dam in July
Cristian Díaz 🏳️🌈@Oozenet I could swear I saw once the thermometer registered 52°C, that was years ago on the middle of El Nino in LA Dorada, Caldas, Colombia
It was on a taxi in the middle of the street at 1PM
Jody T@Oozenet 116F/47C last year here in downtown Sacramento. Central Valley hits over 100 ever summer but we had brutal week in 2022.
@Oozenet the hottest temperature I experienced was 52c last year (not kidding) judging by the current temperatures I bet we will hit 51c this year specifically somewhere around next month. Typical summer over here
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