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There seem to be a lot of well travelled people on here so just thought of a question.

What's the hottest and coldest weather you've experienced? And where?
Mine is 41 degrees in LA whilst running for a plane. Coldest is -13 experienced in rural Normandy. The latter was odd. Didn't seem THAT cold but the next day it was -1. Oddly that felt warm, I guess cos it was 12 degrees hotter
 
45 degrees Death Valley. Shade temperature though so god knows what in the direct sun which we were in occasionally (not for long).

Don’t know coldest, will be in the U.K. somewhere though.
 
I’ve been to Iceland but the coldest I remember being is one time playing a Charity Football match in New Marske one Boxing Day - it was cold enough and icy anyway but add the wind coming in from the sea it was freezing! That’s seriously the coldest I’ve ever felt.

nowhere sensationally hot that I can remember.
 
Hottest Rome 2-3 years ago when Europe were having a severe heatwave, 44 degrees, we were melting, hard to cope.
Coldest a night cup game against Arsenal, ir was absolutely Baltic, took me days to heat up....
 
Hottest Rome 2-3 years ago when Europe were having a severe heatwave, 44 degrees, we were melting, hard to cope.
Coldest a night cup game against Arsenal, ir was absolutely Baltic, took me days to heat up....
Man. 44 in Rome must have been brutal. The other guys with the super hot temperatures at least had then in deserts! Can't imagine a big, humid city at that temp.
 
Hottest, probably high 30's on a summer holiday.

Coldest, -30, up in the Arctic circle with work, dangerously cold, couldn't be outside for more than a few mins at a time.
 
Yeah, I don't normally sweat but water was pouring off me, we went inside a little cafe for a freshly squeezed orange juice, it was as warm as the outside temperature...
 
There seem to be a lot of well travelled people on here so just thought of a question.

What's the hottest and coldest weather you've experienced? And where?
Mine is 41 degrees in LA whilst running for a plane. Coldest is -13 experienced in rural Normandy. The latter was odd. Didn't seem THAT cold but the next day it was -1. Oddly that felt warm, I guess cos it was 12 degrees hotter
Over 60 degrees C, in Kuwait, but that was in the sunlight (not how temp records are measured, and different to shade temps). I actually think it was hotter but the thermometer couldn't hack it, it was about 50 in the shade recorded at the weather station 🥵 It was exceptionally dry and I was acclimatised, so whilst like an oven it wasn't the hottest or most uncomfortable I've felt, that award goes to Qatar and it was about 43 I think, but with much higher humidity, now that was awful, and a lot more sandstorms too.

The 60 degrees still isn't the hottest I've been mind, short term, being in an aircraft cockpit, with an almost closed canopy, on a tow, without the ECS/ Air Con on was something else, it must have been 80 degrees C. I know most won't believe that, especially those that haven't been in the forces or to the gulf, but if you've not been in the situation, you wouldn't think it was possible. I was cuddling multiple frozen 2ltr bottles of water to keep me cool 😩 Most of the lineys (aircraft mechs) did it at some point, but we tried to avoid doing it during the day. When the canopy opens again, you feel really cold, but it's over 45 degrees C, it's strange.

As for cold, I'm sure it got down to about -10 to -14 here in the 80's/90's? I've been about -20 in Canada, and maybe even -25 when skiing up the top of Tignes, but with wind chill it was bloody cold on the face when you weren't moving and you're not there, that high/ cold for that long.
 
Was in Rome when it hit 40 in the 2017 heatwave, also was in Tunisia during a summer heatwave quite a few years ago that hit about 41/42. That was horrendous, because of the climate.
Cold is probably about -10 which I’ve had in Scotland, or possibly Prague or Salzburg during winter cold snaps but don’t know exactly how cold they were.
 
Tend to avoid excessively hot situations, probably Sharm in Summer was the hottest (a not particularly pleasant 38c)

Coldest is between NYC couple of years back in Jan, think it was -14c (had big plans to walk around Manhattan but spent the whole day in a craft beer bar a block over from the hotel). Riga in Jan was also absolutely freezing, around -20c I think. I've never seen a huge river freeze solid before!
 
Hottest was Death Valley easily, and it wasn't much cooler in Vegas in June. 43 ish I think. I remember the convertible roof had to come down cos we were burning (even with sunblock).

Coldest I imagine was Norway in early December but New York at Christmas sticks in the mind as being absolutely bitter, I imagine it was more to do with the breeze off the Hudson than the temperature itself. Southern New Zealand in June is pretty chilly too.

I've never experienced the extremities of Canada in winter or whatever.
 
Hottest around +45 on the central plan of Cyprus.
Coldest Mount Kent Falkland Islands -20 with a with a 50 MPH wind chill on top.
 
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