What's the hottest temps you've ever experienced and where?

[fly girl]

122 on June 26, 1990 in Phoenix, AZ. I remember it well because I just got my drivers license and my car overheated.

 

[Lilsia]

109 in Vegas. It really did not feel that bad to me. I would take that higher, dry heat over the upper 90s with high humidity like we get where I live.

 

[fly girl]

109 in Vegas. It really did not feel that bad to me. I would take that higher, dry heat over the upper 90s with high humidity like we get where I live.

Agree. I will take a hot dry oven over the soggy thick humidity any day!! Heat I can take, it's the humidity that kills me.

 

[DLgal]

Definitely Las Vegas. I think 115 was the hottest.

 

[tvguy]

114 right here in Sacramento. Every few years we have a heatwave like that. 100-105 is the norm here in summer.
Just seems to me people are less tolerant to heat. None of my schools K-12 was air conditioned going to school 1962 to 1975 and there were no early dismissals. In the 1990s our local school district got Federal money to install ac in all the schools. Now if a school ac breaks, school is canceled.

 

[Wakey]

104 here today in UK. Hottest temperature here ever.
All the main railway lines got shut down due to fear of buckling. We must make them out of a special soft steel.
People were told not to travel and stay at home. Shops and schools closed early.
I bet you people in the States find this unusual.
We have very little domestic air conditioning in the U.K. as it’s not normally needed.

 

[mikehn]

We were in St Pete last week and it was stifling hot during the days. We met a gulf war vet down there and he said Iraq was paradise compared to the heat in Florida.

 

[prairie_girl]

53C with humidity which is 127.4F for those unable to convert.

 

[RamblingMad]

120s in Phoenix and Yuma. Anything over 110 without humidity is awful.

 

[kanerf]

The deal with 'dry heat' is that it allows your perspiration to work and cool you down. You sweat, but it vaporizes quickly which helps reduce your skin temperature. This obviously does not work in humid environments. It is also why you can use swamp coolers in desert climates. They use moisture to cool the air, which again does not work if it is very humid already.

 

[Mango7100]

Definitely Las Vegas. I think 115 was the hottest.

Exact same for me—115 in Vegas when we went one July. And it felt more comfortable than Disney at 95 in July. I live in TN and humidity is awful here, but Orlando and Charleston SC in August take that to a whole next level of miserable.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

112 degrees inside the old Texas Rangers baseball stadium during a later afternoon game

 

[Dan Murphy]

107º Phoenix in August.

 

[LYSE]

122 when I lived in AZ, yes its a dry heat but that's 122 which feels like 122..no need to heat index it.

 

[tvguy]

We have very little domestic air conditioning in the U.K. as it’s not normally needed.

I was in London in June 1976 during the .....then record breaking.....heat wave. As I posted elsewhere, I was surprised at the lack of Air Conditioning or a pool at the Hilton hotel I stayed at in London. And to be honest, today as I do some digging and comparing, I am even more surprised. Hotels in San Francisco, where the weather is about 7 degrees cooler on average than London, high rise hotels all have air conditioning, mostly I suspect just for ventilation.
I was in Leeds in 2014 and no ac there, but it was a very old, small hotel.

 

[nicolita3]

122 on June 26, 1990 in Phoenix, AZ. I remember it well because I just got my drivers license and my car overheated.

This is mine as well. I was a kid and my friends and I went to the local public pool.

 

[Drewsdad]

108 Memphis summer 1980

 

[Carol_]

Hiking in Death Valley, 131.

You win?
How did you survive that?

 

[ronandannette]

About 100F (38C) on Grand Cayman Island in August. We'd been to WDW earlier in the week and it was low '90's but with a lot more humidity so that actually felt worse. About the hottest it ever gets here at home is mid-30'sC, but that's not typical and humidity is always very low.

 

[cobright]

Visalia, California was 113 in July.

We took a trip to Death Valley where it was supposed to get up to 125 but instead a cold front came through and it rained. The place gets like 4 days of rain a year and we catch it on our stargazing trip.