What's the hottest and coldest temperature you've ever been in?

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What's the hottest and coldest temperature you've ever been in? - LemmyWorld

Indoor temperatures don’t count. I’m talking about the weather. Coldest for me was probably 14°C (I live in a tropical country) and the hottest was 48°C when i was traveling in June this year.

Hottest 43°C. Coldest somewhere around -20°C.

I think coldest was -18°C during the coldest winter we’ve had, curiously it didn’t even feel that cold when walking outside but that might be because there was no wind and you started feeling the coldness inside you instead of outside.

Hottest is I believe around 40°C but that one’s not as crazy so I’m not really sure of the actual figure, probably higher or lower by a small amount of degrees.

Coldest: -30°C.

Hottest: 52°C.

Hottest? Somewhere around 50C. Coldest? -25C.

-43c / +46c

Probably going to be more hotter seasons and never going to experience the -40s again with the way climate change is going…

47.5° (117.5 F) in Phoenix AZ USA summer.

-11.6° (11 F) in Flagstaff AZ USA winter.

40ish C and -30ish. Neither extreme is very fun.
50C and -40C. Within 1 week of each other on different continents.

-25F (-31C) in Steamboat Springs, Colorado 110F (43C) in Las Vegas, Nevada

At a certain point, cold is just cold

Bout -40C (that’s thermometer, not “feels like”) and +40C. Alberta has temperature swings.

Coldest was -44°C when I was working as a northern lights guide in Norway. We'd always take our tour groups to areas with a high likelihood of polar activity, and once the whole coast was widely overcast so that we had to drive almost to the Finnish border. Camped out along the road towards Kilpisjärvi coming from Skibotn (company was based in Tromso).

Hottest was +45°C in Lagos, Nigeria. Used to work there as well for a good while.

I’ve slept in a shelter I made at -44°C. I’ve biked long distances over many days during a heat wave when the temperature was 38°C average and highs of 40°C.
116 °F (47 °C) during the 2021 Western North America heat wave
7 °F (-14 °C) in Mammoth Lakes, CA
2021 Western North America heat wave - Wikipedia

I know you said indoor temperatures don’t count, but my low is kinda fun: -110c (cryotherapy). Outdoor was 48c (local thermometer said higher) in northern Western Australia.
I know nothing about cryotherapy: were you awake for that?? What was the experience like?
Yeah, awake. Stood in a giant freezer wearing only shorts, socks and a mask. It’s a way to enhance healing by encouraging white blood cell production via shocking the system through lowering skin temp rapidly. Very good for muscular issues, arthritis, etc. I just did it once for fun, but I could really go for a bulk set sessions… getting old.

Hottest was somewhere between 115F and 120F (46.2C and 48.9C)

Coldest was -30F with a windchill of -55F (-34.4C with windchill of -48.3C)

Albertan who works as a line cook?
Wisconsinite who has lived in Vegas, but close!
Hottest was 115 F (46C) in Phoenix, Arizona. Coolest was -55 F (-48C) in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. I think the wind chill was around -85 F.
-45°C in central Alberta in the 90’s, +45° C in California in the 80’s.
Mine’s about the same range, but both in Alberta
I don’t think there’s anywhere in Alberta that gets above 40
Not regularly, but if I remember correctly it was a record-breaking 43 about 10 or so years ago
I’ve seen Alberta get above 40C in rare cases.

Loved for a little in Lapland, Finland. What’s that. Like -20c in winter?

Hottest would be where I line now, Australia. Mid 40’s C is common where I am.

Hottest was easily over 50°C. I live in a hot and humid place, so it is even hotter than your typical 50°C. And it’s hell. Really good if you’re on the beach (assuming you manage to avoid insolation), but being home and having to work is the absolute worst I don’t wish to anyone.

Coldest was maybe 15-18°C? I was travelling to a not so cold neighboring state and it was quite good, actually. I prefer the weather like this.

Coldest: -10F - Camping trip to the lava beds in Oregon

Hottest: 112F - Just going out to get the mail.

Coldest was probably -20 °C, hottest around 40 °C.

My comfort temperature is right around 15 °C. Anything higher than 20 °C and I start sweating.

My girlfriend wants to go to Egypt for vacation this year. That’s going to be fun…

I start shivering below 22°C lol
-40C and +40C. Both in the same year. Fuckin save me.
Add “in the same place” and you would have said Siberia without saying it
Oh it was in the same place. I should have made that clear, but incorrectly assumed it was implied.
Hottest was in Iraq at like 120 F

Hottest: 37°C Coldest: -25°C (-40°C with windchill)

Both in Toronto

Hottest was about 56C when I ran the Badwater race through Death Valley. Coldest was about -27 when I was in Idaho…tried to jog that day too but couldn’t take the burn in my lungs.
hottest: 39C coldest: -28C
Coldest was about -45°C, hottest was about +45°C. We’ve got quite the range where I live, though usually it’s closer to -30 and +30, those were just extreme cases lol.

Coldest was about -45°C

jesus where was this, the arctic?

A year or two ago we went from -42°C to +42°C in about 3 months (and of Feb to early June). The temperature swings in parts of Canada are wild
hey you’re the guy who didn’t shit for 3 days! how was the sex party?
Hottest, in the early '90s I worked for a technical trade school as a lab instructor in Phoenix, AZ. My commute was by motorcycle from Tempe, AZ. In the heat of one summer it got to near 120F outside one day, and wearing motorcycle gear plus the heat from the motor made me feel like I was going to pass out from extreme heat exhaustion (but luckily, I didn’t).
Arizona desert during the summer. Winter Storm in Wyoming.
hottest was 47°C and coldest around -10°C (which felt too cold for me haha, it's crazy to me that people can survive with temps like -20°C and lower :ρ)

Hottest was around 50°C, which was surprisingly bearable but I do like warmth, so there's that.

Coldest around -10°C, and hated every second of it. Cold is my arch nemesis.

Hottest:42C
Coldest:0C with rain

Im hoping to experience snow for the first time in my life this winter tho

Hottest: 42C humid - horrible sensation, would never want to experience it again, but looks like we’re almost there again Coldest: -27C - wasn’t nice, but not worse than -15C with high winds!

(both in Romania)

40°C - Malta holiday -21°C - Kasprowy Wierch hike.
Hike? That must’ve been extreme
The weather can change quite quickly in the mountains. It was winter hiking anyway, but suddenly dropped as we neared the top. Thankfully, there is a cable car station at the top of Kasprowy.

I’ve been outside working in -34° C, and likewise 54.4° C. That’s -30° F and 130° F for those of us who use imperial.

The negative temp was Alaska, and the high positive was the Arabian Gulf. Good times.

Wow. They are both impressive numbers.

My hottest is Australia at about 47c and Germany at about -18c.

Went from one, to a couple of days later the other. Quite the shock. Quite the fun of it all.

I'm close to you. 118F in Colorado, -30 in Chicago during the polar vortex. I had icicles in my beard within minutes, it was gnarly.

Hottest? Last summer, driving home, Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area. The A/C in the car I was driving was busted, it had zero window tint and a plexiglas roof panel so there was no shade whatsoever. The area was getting that extremely dry late-summer heat that area gets during made worse by the heat dome effect over the city. The actual temp was likely 108°-110°F, but the “feels like” was somewhere in the upper 120°s. Add to that the fact that the wind itself was literally hot, and there I was driving down the highway with my windows down cooking in what basically amounted to a convection oven. I ended up finding that I was actually cooler if I rolled the windows up. When I got home my shirt was totally soaked and as a result, it has the shadow of a seatbelt burned into it.

Coldest? Around -20°F in central Utah during winter at about 3AM during an impromptu snowball fight in the apartment complex I lived in. Zero wind and about a foot of snow on the ground. Again, surprisingly dry, so it was legitimately PLEASANT with a ski jacket, long johns and jeans, when compared to a humid, windy winter as warm as 32°F anywhere else in the same gear, but definitely the coldest temperature I’ve seen by the numbers.

German here.

hottest: 42°C in summer 2003. there have probably been warmer days by now, but I’m not aware of any.

coldest: -14°C in winter 2009/2010, while waiting for an absolute asshole of a bus driver to stop reading his news paper and finally open the door to let us in. I get that you want to enjoy your break in silence, but ffs. Leaving us waiting in such cold temperatures for around 10 minutes was just inhumane.

Hottest would be 49°C in Marrakech, in the middle of August. I remember Moroccans talking about how hot it was, and a big thunderstorm broke that evening with torrential rain.

Coldest would be at home in the UK. Probably the coldest I’ve experienced would be about -7°C, that’s pretty extreme where I am though and it would be the night time temperature. I remember a few years ago going clubbing in winter and someone robbed my coat, I had to walk home at 3am in about -3°C with my friends trying to keep me warm. Not fun.

Hottest? No idea. I’ve never liked the heat and avoid it when I can.

Coldest? Easy. Forty feet (12 meters) up on top of a jet fuel tank in Thule, Greenland helping to change the cover on an automatic tank gauge. It was in the -40s on the ground (doesn’t matter which scale) and windy. I don’t know how much colder it was on top of the tank, but it was certainly colder than it was on the ground.

The hottest I’ve been in was 117°F (47.2°C) when I lived in Las Vegas. Was actually slated for a 10 mile run that day, but it was mercifully cut down to 4 miles.

Coldest without windchill would be -35°F (-37°C), just a couple of winters ago. I’m surprised it’s not lower, not too far from here a city set the state record at -60°F (-51°C) not too long ago.