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[Tommy_Dickfingers]

Hottest was in Dubai in August about 15 years ago. Remember walking about 300yds and the light blue t-shirt I had on had turned dark blue with sweat.

Coldest was the away game against Graz 'You only sing when you're skiing'

 

[The vomiting vicar]

I was working on West Burton power station in 2010, -18 and they still wanted the lads out on the job

 

[Norfolkred1]

We were on exercise in Cyprus and had a US Marine working with us. 'Do NOT go out running in the midday heat' was the order. Off he went, picked up 2 miles out looking like a cooked Lobster and dehydrated beyond belief. Tell a US Marine twice.

 

[Brian Marwood]

+46 in Delhi which was unbearable as I was travelling for business and wearing a shirt.
-20 in Chicago which was -30 with wind chill and snowing heavily. Spent a day at the airport waiting for my flight out due to the snow.

 

[El Guapo]

Hottest, 46 in Mexico,

coldest, -50 in the bedroom.

 

[Smoggle]

Hottest was in the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan around 2014. Temp gauge in car said 50 degrees but in reality it was a few degrees cooler than that, still roasting though!

I was in Kazakhstan through 5 winters with -30s regular, it’s not so bad as it’s dry cold but when the wind picks up it’s brutal. You can always tell when it’s about -20 as your nose hairs freeze straight away. The 2017/18 winter had the coldest temperature while I was there at -40 with windchill taking it just shy of -60. So I did what any sensible person would do and went out in a tshirt, think I lasted about 10 seconds! Currently enjoying the milder Russian winter!

 

[NZBoro1]

Warmest probably Karachi, but humid too, may be in the 40s.

Coldest, Canada or Alaska in January, Cold Lake or Fairbanks, freezing, -33 I think was the coldest at night. I couldnt believe it. Did get to see the Northern lights though.

Forgot to plug the car into the engine warmer, plugged it in the next morning and it took a week for the engine/battery to thaw

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

44 degrees in Lanzarote during a Calima (hot dusty wind blowing from the Sahara 70 miles away)

-13 in Aviemore one night.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Hottest will have been in the Persian Gulf, Qatar or Dubai, like a few have already mentioned, hitting 50 degrees. You know it's really hot when having a breeze makes it worse rather than better, it's like being in a fan assisted oven

Coldest. The Kara sea, North of Siberia We worked there until the sea started freezing up. Can't remember the temperature but it was pretty nippy.

 

[Statto1]

44 degrees in Lanzarote during a Calima (hot dusty wind blowing from the Sahara 70 miles away)

That's crazy for the canaries, the temperature seems so consistent whenever I've been (about 10 times), it's always breezy and seems to be between 17-27, everywhere I've been any time of day, any time of year.

Does that happen often?

 

[uberweiss]

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

Hottest: 45c in Muscat in 2011. People sunbathing in it by the pool. Madness. I stayed in the hotel bar and watched Wimbledon (tennis, not AFC)
Coldest: Was -18c in Glasgow around New Year one year in the late 90s I think. Dry cold. Different level

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

When I lived in the UAE the law was that work had to stop if it hit 50 degrees - Funny how during my stay it never hit the mark

 

[Statto1]

Hottest will have been in the Persian Gulf, Qatar or Dubai, like a few have already mentioned, hitting 50 degrees. You know it's really hot when having a breeze makes it worse rather than better, it's like being in a fan assisted oven

It's like when walking out of the air con is like opening the over door Or not wanting to go back inside because 20 degrees will feel "too cold".

What makes it even worse is the temperature swing from air con to heat, so you've got to take warm clothes if you're going outside, as when you go back inside you feel freezing. You then layer up, warm up and then go out back into the oven, and it all starts again, it's tough.

That weird phenomenon when you also take a nice chilled bottle of water out of the freezer, take it outside, open the top and then it freezes as a solid block in your hand instantly

 

[Statto1]

When I lived in the UAE the law was that work had to stop if it hit 50 degrees - Funny how during my stay it never hit the mark

Yup, had the same in the forces, ring up the met office and it's apparently 49.9 on the handling area, every day, yet never goes over It's funny how the rules only exist when it suits, which is never.

 

[Konrad_the_Barbarian]

Aycliffe right now

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Yup, had the same in the forces, ring up the met office and it's apparently 49.9 on the handling area, every day, yet never goes over It's funny how the rules only exist when it suits, which is never.

Yeah, You've got to know what you are doing when you are out and about in those temperatures. I've ridde all of the place in that region - and I always wora a hydration vest with a leather jacket over the top plus a full face helmet. Dehydration is the killer rather than the heat!

 

[FlapJacks]

Coldest was Greenland: about -25 C

 

[breakthewallsdown]

Thailand probably the hottest - Must of been in the 40's

Coldest, must of been Glasgow, Early January for a Rangers game

 

[Statto1]

Yeah, You've got to know what you are doing when you are out and about in those temperatures. I've ridde all of the place in that region - and I always wora a hydration vest with a leather jacket over the top plus a full face helmet. Dehydration is the killer rather than the heat!

Out in a leather jacket over there? Wow!

Saying that, in 2003 I was running for air raid shelters in an NBC suit, with a gas mask and helmet on. After the third one I didn't bother, getting blown up seemed more appealing than running for the shelter in that $hit.

You're right about the fluids though, that's why people struggled more in Kuwait than in Qatar I found. It wasn't because it was hotter, it was because it was so dry, people didn't realise how much they were sweating as was instantly drying. In Qatar we had drenched clothing most days, due to sweat, so it was a constant reminder what you were losing.

 

[Sammysmiths]

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.

If it was a Tornado, someone would go and pull the circuit breaker in the nose bay and lock you in there for a laugh. It was never a laugh in the Gulf and it only happened once when they realised how quickly the liney dehydrated and started to pass out in a very short period of time.
Hottest for me was probably the flight line in Saudi dressed in full NBC suit, gas mask and carrying a SLR rifle and full webbing, and loading missiles onto the aircraft as part of a quick turnaround.
Temperature wise was beaten by the Omani desert where a digital weather station eventually melted at 55 degrees.
Coldest? Stornoway in February. Side winds, side sheet rain and open airfield with no protection from the elements and dug in to a trench waiting to be attacked by the RAF Reg! For hours!!!!