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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

The hottest temperature I ever experienced was Phoenix, Arizona. July 1997.

I was on a stop-over on my way to Vancouver from New York. Bored, I went through a 'staff only' door onto the airport tarmac. The temp LED in the airport had said 42C. I thought, mmmm.... I wonder what 42C feels like? I opened the door to the outside and ducked right back in again!! It was an oven!! Yet people were working in that!!

I've never really been in a very cold place. Just thought I'd throw that in there for balance.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

I remember eating a bowl of cereal and milk in such cold weather the milk was frozen into chunks of ice. The kids I was working with at the time thought it was hilarious. I wasn't happy as my only heat source was my foul language and I couldn't use it around kids.

Oh yeah that was in Alabama, was below freezing, with no heat in a wood stove heated cabin.

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Hottest: 45C in Ankara. It was so dry, though, that you really didn't notice the exceptional heat. What I did notice was hanging clothes out to dry and having them done in less than half an hour.

Coldest: -28C in Leningrad. New Year's day, 1989. After partying all night at one of my students' apartments, we went outside to find that the temperature had plummeted overnight and everything was more frozen than it was before. Still fueled by some of the previous evening's champagne, we wound up in a children's park near the Admiralty. I decided to go down the frozen slide standing, like a ski jumper. I sailed off the end and had my feet shoot out from under me when I hit the patch of ice in front of the slide. I went horizontal in the air and landed flat on my back, knocking all the wind from my lungs and nearly the champagne from my gut. The earth is especially hard at those temperatures. I thought I would die. I thank the little goat that gave up its pelt for my thick Russian hat because that's the only thing that kept me from spilling some brains on that ground. Five minutes later, lesson learned, I more soberly got up and went home to sleep.

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Hottest I think was +42C in Saskatchewan. Coldest I remember was -53C with a windchill making it -72C I believe. That was in the Northwest Territories where I lived for awhile. Still went to school that day. I think I was 7 years old. Brrrr...

potblackettle · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: South Korea

Mmm yeah... I'm from South Carolina which is also known as the seventh ring of hell. During the summer it fluctuates between 95 and 110... so I couldn't tell you about hot, hot is normal to me.

I spent a few nights in Canada and it was seriously like -15 degrees f... and let me reiterate... I'm from SC, if it drops below 30 degrees we go into panic mode and clean out the grocery/hardware stores... so anything below 0 seems, literally, like the end of the world to me.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

When daddy used to throw boiling water from a tea kettle on my 5 year old body to stop crying. Man was that ever hot!

Coldest was in 7th grade science class when we had a liquid nitrogen fight

desultude · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject:

Coldest: -85 at Coldfoot (I kid you not) Camp while working on the Trans Alaska Pipeline. At the time it set the all time North American coldest ever. That does not factor in wind-chill, by the way- but there was no wind. Nothing moved.

One of the funniest things about working on the pipeline was when some Texas pipeliner would leave his truck motor running all night to keep the truck warm, then when he went out to his warm truck and hit the gas, within a few feet all of his tires would shatter like glass.

Ahhh, good times. Confused

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

The hottest I've experienced is where I went to junior and senior high school, Kamloops, B.C., Canada, a small riverside city a few hours northeast of Vancouver, in the southcentral region of the province, a patch of semi-arid desert in an otherwise mild provincial climate: + 45 C (that day, nearby Lytton hit 46 C, soooooo often the Canadian hot spot in summertime). But we are talking bone dry, no humidity, so cracked skin and parched throat are real problems.

The coldest I've felt was a decade ago during my two winters in the coldest city in the world (for populations over 600,000), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: - 41 C (-57 C with windchill - and in Winterpeg you MUST take that prairie knifewind into consideration). I was alllll prepared for that day, seven layers of clothing, two winter caps, two scarves, I was decked out.... wore regular socks and dress shoes.... Shocked

friggin' froze my feet!!!! my feet still hurt to this day if I think about it. after that day, I have a constant supply of heavy wool socks and winter boots, even in Korea, just in case.

I spent my first ten years on Vancouver Island, where temperatures fluctuate yearly between +5 C and +25 C. That's it. No hotter and no colder. Gawd I miss that weather. Mild is best!

kermo

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject:

When I was living in Rockhampton, Queensland in 1990 it was 45.3 degrees. It wasn't even summer, just the middle of spring. Two days later it was 47 degrees. That was a wee bit warm. Rocky is usually hot in summer, but that weather was a bit abnormal - a cyclone hit a couple of months later. Unfortunately I'd been transferred out by then and missed out on a LOT of overtime.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Hottest place I've ever been to - a resort in southern Turkey. Granted, as Woland said, it's not humid, but that Turkey sun is like a hammer. It pounds you down and crushes you.

Coldest weather I've ever experienced: Seoul. It goes cold-then-mild - so it's not relentless - but I recall going to a Xmas party last year, December 18th. The wind and the cold - it was torture. It was only -18c so I just cannot imagine what those Canadian temperatures must be like.

I guess both my choices reflect I'm from a mild, temperate country and the fact that I've never been to any places like Russia. I've been to Singapore, right near the equator, and that was hot and sticky but hardly unbearable.

Hottest place on Earth is statistically Somalia (mean yearly temperature), whilst Baghdad appears to be the capital with the most eye-popping-out-as-you-read summer temperatures....47c.

Corporal · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Coldest: NW Ontario.
Hottest: Acapulco.