aslkahuna Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 126F in Bullhead City AZ. Too bad you missed Lake Havasu when they hit 128F. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnykay Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 109 or 110F in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1979; the next day the temp dropped to 103F and it was noticeably cooler!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sickman Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 109F, Las Vegas, June 2000. If I heard "but it was a dry heat" one more time, I would've become homicidal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wederwarrior Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 117 Reading, CA - July 2008ish? Dryest hottest tinderbox The sun was setting when I drove through the valley, hat day people there said it hit 120 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Too bad you missed Lake Havasu when they hit 128F. Steve I had been through Havasu about 1-2 hours prior. I was driving a delivery route that day along the Colorado River. Ran from Phx to Parker, then up the river to Havasu, Bullhead, then over to Kingman, then back to Phx. I didn't know the official temps until I got home and saw the newscast weather. Phx was only 117 that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW155 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 118 in Death Valley, CA. July 2005. Yea I was in Death Valley too. Not sure how hot it got but well over 110. I took the scenic route from Vegas to San Fran w/ my buddy about 5 years ago. Craziest part was stopping to get 5 gallons of water just in case we broke down and then 3 hours later seeing Mt. Whitney. It's so insane how extreme that area is in such a short distance. I still think Florida heat in the summer is worse than anything out west can offer. 95 for a high and 85 for a low w/ close to 100% humidity and dewpoints above 75 for 3-4 months straight. I like heat, but it gets to you after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 114 in White Oak, Texas. I remember it well because it was in late August and we were doing two-a-days for football. 114 with 85 percent humidity in full pads SUCKS. our field temps would often get to 125 but that was with direct sun scorching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJwinter23 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Have driven from LA to Vegas twice. The most recent time last summer when it was 110-115..the stop in Barstow was the worst. Vegas was 100-108 both days which was actually pretty cool for July out there...The first trip 10 years ago was about 5-10 degrees hotter though and distinctly recall 118 on the car thermometer going down I-15. Have spent several random days over the years in Palm Springs, CA also with temps in the 118-122 range....but it's a dry heat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVblizzard Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 105 degrees or so this past summer. I've never been to an abnormally hot climate like Phoenix or Vegas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 119°F - Phoenix,AZ Lived there for a 5 years of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U_Thant Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 108 in DFW during that record-breaking dry stretch they had about 10 years ago, give or take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bates Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 122 in Agra, India when visiting the Taj Mahal (and it was humid; just before the monsoon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongIslandWx Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 106 in Las Vegas in 1996. Interesting sidenote - I went to visit my sister in Phoenix in late August/early September....it didn't touch 100 while I was there and we had severe weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astarck Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 122 in Death Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 112, Lake Mead, NV, while on vacation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 119°F - Phoenix,AZ Lived there for a 5 years of my life. Five years in Phoenix for me as well. I lived there from 1996-2001. If I had it all to do over again, I would have never left the desert. I love it out there and there isn't a day in my current life that I don't long to move back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm017 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 107 in tucson, az last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAT5ANDREW Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 JUly 15 1995.Temp was 105 but dewpoint was 81.THat was the hottest I have ever experienced and with the high dewpoints I succumbed to heatstroke and had to go to the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mencken_Fan Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 109 or 110F in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1979; the next day the temp dropped to 103F and it was noticeably cooler!! Having spent ~50 years in my hometown of Washington, D.C./Montgomery County,, I would have to challenge that. Though I've no stats in front of me, my memory of D.C. weather is pretty good, and I believe the record high there is 109F having occurred only once during the 1930s. Since the early 1950s in D.C. I've seen plenty of 105s, a few 106s and perhaps a super-rare 107 to 108 but nothing beyond that. The most stunning heat wave I recall was one back in the 1960s with many consecutive days over 100F. If there's a met or statistician out there watching; please feel free to chime in. All the above is of course based on National Airport temperatures; moderated by the Potomac River (both winter and summer.) The highest extreme temps in the metro area seem to be in the exurbs, out towards the lee of the mountains. Frederick Maryland, smaller, higher, and northwest of D.C. gets both colder in winter and hotter in summer; surely related to those nearby mountains. Whatever the case, metro D.C. with its nasty humidity is insufferable when the temperature climbs above 100F, and going outside at 105F+ is sheer torture. One of the benefits of moving here to Wilmington, NC (midway between airport and the 5 miles away ocean) is that it's not so miserably hot in summer, even though I'm hundreds of miles to the south! (And the sea breeze here is potent.) Don't miss the D.C. "misery index" at all....(but okay, I do miss the snow...if only a little bit.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k*** Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 122 in the mojave during the summer of 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 126 Baker California at the world's tallest thermometer summer many years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csnavywx Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 121 in Iraq. Ditto in Bahrain. Except I believe our dewpoints were in the 70s. Hated that humidity in July/Aug when we lost the Shamal winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I'd guess somewhere between 100-102, although I'm not positive. I've only been in 100+ degree weather a handful of times in my life. My dad was in the Persian Gulf War, so I think he's been in quite a few 100+ degree days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 San Antonio, Texas in September 2006. 106 degrees in the shade with 69 degree dews. DAMNED hot. I hate summer with all my heart. Prefer heavy snow one foot per hour at 0 degrees with 50 mph sustained winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 106 in Northern VA. I always thought DC summer heat and humidity was the worst. until I went to Riviera Maya in Mexico. 100 degrees and the most god awful humidity I have ever felt. I will never go back there in the summer again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ict1523 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 110F in Rapid City, SD. Wind gusts near 50mph that day too. Not pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW155 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 110F in Rapid City, SD. Wind gusts near 50mph that day too. Not pretty. Were your eyes drying out? I would hate wearing contacts in conditions like that. Every time you blink, they pop out, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I spent 3 weeks in Greece in July 2007. First two weeks people were wearing light jackets at night. The third week I was there the pattern switched dramatically and the temp hit 110F around the parts I was staying at. Apparently it was their hottest heatwave in over 100 years. Lucky me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Analog96 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 109 in Phoenix, AZ a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 110° in Las Vegas in 2006. In the East, it hit 103-105° in July 1999 at the summer camp I was at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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