Hottest weather you have experienced?

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BIONIC-ARRRMMM!! said:
I have a hard time believing that Gulf Countries (Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, etc.) haven't surpassed that by now honestly. Is this record current?
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As far as I know it's because Death Valley is lower than sea level. It's a giant depression with winds blocked on all sides. The heat gets trapped from the surrounding high ground. There are not enough plants to create shade. No to low humidity means no clouds to block the sun. No or low winds mean no convection cooling. So it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter.
 
48°C back 2 or 3 years ago when I was visiting my parents back home. Dry heat though so it is okay to deal with.

If it hits 35 with humidity around here I found like a wet paper bag, grew up with the dry heat.
 
-Stranger- said:
I just got that from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

Aziziya, Libya previously had the world record of 57.8, but it has since been debunked as incorrect.

I'm pretty sure Australia's record is just on 50c
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It's really hard to find what the record is. I remember a documentary said the outback reaches 70c. A solider stationed in the middle east(forget the area he said he was in) told me it was 150F(65c) when he was there. Though I wonder if those places just don't have officially recorded temperatures? I dunno, though 56c is hot enough! I'd be curious to see what it felt like though...for a minute.
 
I think about 44°C or so when I lived in Melbourne. It's the wind that really gets you. Nothing like stepping out of a boiling house expecting a little breeze to cool you down and instead it's like opening the oven.
 
Darklord said:
47c/116f. It was on Black Saturday in Melbourne when we had the worst bush fires in Australia. And also the hottest day on record.
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Those fires were close to my house, we would stand at the top of the hill and see the smoke and flames in the distance.

Tomorrow in Melbourne is going to suck...
 
Wife and I went to New Orleans in late June a few years ago for about two weeks, and we had to walk everywhere (no vehicle, no money). It was basically 110 with constant beaming sun every day. Even at night it was still around 90.
 
About 50c. Lived in the middle of nowhere in far west QLD for a couple of years, in a small town called Cloncurry which has the highest recorded temperature in Australia. Never quite reached the record of 53.1c while I was there but it got damn hot, wind was like a hairdryer some days.
 
42C in the South of France last year.. which doesn't sound so bad, until you take into account I had ridden there on my motorcycle from London in full gear. I had 4 litres of water strapped to the back of my bike and was drinking the lot every hour.
 
It's not so much the heat as the humidity, IMO. I thought the 38c we had in the UK was a pain but tolerable (we are totally not built for anything above 30c).. However I went to Malaysia a few years ago - 40c+ with 100% humidity. Brutal.
 
saunderez said:
About 50c. Lived in the middle of nowhere in far west QLD for a couple of years, in a small town called Cloncurry which has the highest recorded temperature in Australia. Never quite reached the record of 53.1c while I was there but it got damn hot, wind was like a hairdryer some days.
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It's gonna be 41 with extreme dry wind in Melbourne tomorrow! Yay Australia!
 
Think it was around 45C+ on holiday in Turkey.

I'm just not made for the heat.

Luckily it's only 30C+ a couple of days a year max here, so it's ok. Wish he had more reasonably warm days during summer though. And less rain.
 
Low 40's C I think. Was in Brussels during the summer it was 35C with 90-100% humidity, my pores did not close for a week, was losing water faster than I could drink it. In comparison, was in Madrid when it was in the low 40s with low humidity and while at times I couldn't bear to go outside, didn't really sweat all that much.

Damn Irish skin (and body)!
 
Tokyo in late August. Not sure just how hot it was, but probably around 40C with 100% humidity coupled with bad big city air. I'm not used to hot weather at all, so it was unlike anything I've experienced. Walking out of the air-conditioned hotel was like being hit over the head with something heavy. It was probably nothing to many of you, though.
 
Where I'm from, temperatures can hover around 50 C on a hot summer day, and can even pass 55 on occasion. Aside from a few coastal regions, basically one big, arid desert in the middle east.

I remember as a kid, my mother moved my scooter and water gun in the sun while cleaning the garage and the next time I saw them the scooter's wheel melted off and the water gun was too deformed to do anything.
 
You Americans are lucky with your winter and snow.

It's still bloody 28 degrees Celsius (82 F) and it's nearly midnight lol
 
I remember it being 122 Fahrenheit in Phoenix AZ once. I was just a kid.

AZ often feels like a boundless oven and you can actually bake stuff in your car while it sits in the parking lot. When it gets over 110, it's pure misery. As soon as you walk outside, it's like someone just lit you on fire.
 
-Stranger- said:
You Americans are lucky with your winter and snow.

It's still bloody 28 degrees Celsius (82 F) and it's nearly midnight lol
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Lucky? Snow sucks donkey balls.
Cleaining you car every morning, driving extemly slow because the roads are all slipery, oh what a joy.
 
-Stranger- said:
You Americans are lucky with your winter and snow.

It's still bloody 28 degrees Celsius (82 F) and it's nearly midnight lol
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Where are you? It's 20C in Sydney haha

In 2011 we had a whole week of >40C days. All the grass on our school oval dried up and died.
 
This thread is pretty much melb-GAF and adl-GAF complaining about the heat at the moment.

My friggin air con in the living area broke down yesterday, hopefully the man is coming out tomorrow to fix it before it gets hotter next week.
 
Arjen said:
Lucky? Snow sucks donkey balls.
Cleaining you car every morning, driving extemly slow because the roads are all slipery, oh what a joy.
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I got a burn on my arm today from the seatbelt touching it as I got in the car.

Extreme snow would be worse than extreme heat though. Can still do most things during extreme heat whereas in extreme cold you can't even drive to the shops
 
Darklord said:
It's really hard to find what the record is. I remember a documentary said the outback reaches 70c. A solider stationed in the middle east(forget the area he said he was in) told me it was 150F(65c) when he was there. Though I wonder if those places just don't have officially recorded temperatures? I dunno, though 56c is hot enough! I'd be curious to see what it felt like though...for a minute.
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Mind that these record temperatures are likely measured in a controlled environment (constant shade, and wind conditions), a thermometer that has been in full/partial sunlight will show far higher temperatures.

When I visited Death Valley in august 2010 it was ~49C, that was the hottest I ever experienced.
 
US-GAF, Remember those 2-3 weeks of death we had in July 2011?
Heat Indexes in the 120s and dew points in the 90s in Minnesota.

Good times.
 
I remember stepping off a plane at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus and being blasted by 45C of heat. It was like being punched in the face.
 
Darklord said:
It's really hard to find what the record is. I remember a documentary said the outback reaches 70c. A solider stationed in the middle east(forget the area he said he was in) told me it was 150F(65c) when he was there. Though I wonder if those places just don't have officially recorded temperatures? I dunno, though 56c is hot enough! I'd be curious to see what it felt like though...for a minute.
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150F would have been logged by the forces there. Soldiers like to exaggerate! Although, it probably felt that way, I'm sure.
 
The highest temp recorded in Melbourne was 46.4 C (115.5 F) in Feb 2009 and where I live, about 40 minutes west of Melbourne, we generally get temperatures 1 - 2 degrees hotter so I'm not sure the exact temp but at least 46.4 C..

I have 2000 more words of an essay to write over Friday and the weekend and I'm NOT looking forward to it..
 
NotTarts said:
Where are you? It's 20C in Sydney haha

In 2011 we had a whole week of >40C days. All the grass on our school oval dried up and died.
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Arjen said:
Lucky? Snow sucks donkey balls.
Cleaining you car every morning, driving extemly slow because the roads are all slipery, oh what a joy.
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I'd love it as i love colder weather. Only get snow on the mountains here mostly.
But when it gets really frosty here in winter it's annoying defrosting the car.
So you got a point there ;)
 
Somewhere in the mid 30s. Once in Czech Republic in 2001 when I was pretty young and then later in Rome where I noticed it was hot in the shadows, an experience scandinavians aren't very used to.

I have driven in a car without AC through 30+ as well, but that is all.
 
34 Celsius with Hong Kong's humidity is nothing to laugh at. Although there probably are worse places, the amount of people and the pollution does not help the situation.
 
Texas had like 3 months of 100+ degree humid weather last year. Drought too, I believe. Had like 2 forest fires around austin
 
Yoshiya said:
Hobart is not going to deal with the forecasted 39 tomorrow. People seem to complain as soon as the temperature nears 30.
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People here seem to bitch about the weather when it's cold and when it's to hot. They must like it when it's around 21c or something. It's quite annoying lol

I'm fascinated by weather so i like to experience the extremes.
 
what's ridiculous is i can sit in the sauna that's at 210F for like 15-20 minutes before experiencing any discomfort or thirst. but get the weather to like 95F here and i'm dying when i set foot outside. maybe it's the brightness/sun?

anyways hottest i've experienced outside has to be in one of the last couple summers...i swear it got up to like 105 or so. kansas city area.
 
I remember i watched a documentary about how the sun is slowly getting bigger.
In thousands of years (maybe more) places like New York City will regularly get 50c+(130F) temperatures.

Scary to think of the crazy weather Earth will experience in the future.
 
Pretty close to fifty in Marakech, 47 on Black Saturday in Melbourne, and 40 on the east coast of Tasmania, which was close to the worst because of the hole in the ozone layer.
 
bomma_man said:
Pretty close to fifty in Marakech, 47 on Black Saturday in Melbourne, and 40 on the east coast of Tasmania, which was close to the worst because of the hole in the ozone layer.
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Does Tasmania really have a hole in the ozone layer?

We have some of the cleanest air in the world here.
 
43 Celsius on Crete, Greece.... just the day my parents chose to see some archeological sites. Imagine that....the sun straight up in the sky....and the only shadows in miles are from broken vases (small vases) ;___;
 
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