Hottest weather you've ever felt?

[Kern Dog]

This question may be best aimed at members from Arizona or Military guys that served in Iraq, but what is the highest temperature that you ever had to work in?
In 1990 I worked a 112 degree day, in construction in CA. After THAT, there were guidelines put in place to protect workers. Nowadays, I just can't tolerate the heat like before. When it gets over 100 for several days, I get fatigued and short tempered. Sure, the humidity out here in Sacramento is nothing compared to what the Midwest people endure, but 100 degrees SUCKS! I look forward to the long days of summer, but this heat isn't motivating me much.

[68coronetGLwannabe]

122* in AZ June 1990. Drove truck making local deliveries with no A/C! Thank God I was Young. It was so hot they shut down the Phoenix airport.

[ODZKing]

I'll tell ya this is the hottest summer I can remember here in upstate NY.  We have broken record after record this summer.  And where I am we lots of cloudy days and rain.
This summer it has been consistantly high 80's and 90's, continuously.
Almost makes me want winter ... I said ALMOST!   

[skip68]

117 degrees 4 years ago.  Death valley was 126 degrees 3 days ago and the record temperature is 134 degrees.   That's frickin hot. 

[68X426]

It was so hot they shut down the Phoenix airport.

Wow, what a small world it is. I was THERE in '90 when the Phoenix airport closed! My flight was cancelled and I was stuck in town for two more hot days. 

[Budnicks]

It's been hot as hell lately, even here in the Sierra foothills, 105*+ for 3 days now, it's not that big of a deal, down in the San Joaquin/Sacramento Valley, but for up here in Sonora area, that's too freaken' hot, we have far more humidity than the valley does, so it makes it much worse, or it seems like it anyway, I remember the days, not so long ago, when I had to frame, build & weld out in this type of 100*+ heat, no-thanks "not me" anymore, I've gotten much smarter, as I've gotten' older, well sort of anyway... Phoenix/Chandler in the mid summer, 113-115* I think it was, at a Match race @ Firebird, too hot, especially when you can't get out of the heat, it was like 90* @ 6:00am when we woke up for the second day... I do like the heat more than the freezen' cold though...

[Chryco Psycho]

I have friends who have worked in Dubai ,where it can hit close to 50 C  I have been in 132 F or so .on the other end of the scale I have worked in -64 C

[Mytur Binsdirti]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/an-incovenient-result-july-2012-not-a-record-breaker-according-to-the-new-noaancdc-national-climate-reference-network/



Our government has spent (how many?) millions on a completely unbiased weather data collection system, and won't even use it to compile accurate reports. Is it an environmentalists' conspiracy? You be the judge.

[twodko]

The hottest environment I've ever been in is near my wife when she's pissed a me.

[c00nhunterjoe]

Natural: 108 and humid this summer.

Manmade: Solar Heat chamber at work: 160* 100% humidity. Only allowed in for 5 minutes at a time. Miserable doesn't even begin to describe it.

[Daytona R/T SE]

It was the summer of  '79...

I was 16...

She was older...

Maybe 18...

[lloyd3]

Hard reply to follow.  Starting in 2000, I worked on a project at Sky Harbor in Phoenix off and on again for something like 6-years.  Lots of work was done at night to allow access to the runways (and to minimize stress on personnel) but even then it was quite hot. Some nights it never got under 100 until 3 or 4 AM.  Going into a Conex for pump parts when ambient was 116 degrees was quite memorable.  The experience totally reset my operating temperature range, and after a while anything under 110 wasn't too bad.  That following December, I about froze while elk-hunting here in Colorado when it was only about 10 below zero, and I haven't been able to do the really cold stuff well ever since.

[ChgrSteve67]

126 in the shade out in the Nevada desert (US Gov bombing range east of Indian Springs). We did not move around durring the day, only after the sun went down.



Currently its 7pm and 99.6 degrees

[adauto]

Been in Death Valley... 128 

[PocketThunder]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/an-incovenient-result-july-2012-not-a-record-breaker-according-to-the-new-noaancdc-national-climate-reference-network/



Our government has spent (how many?) millions on a completely unbiased weather data collection system, and won't even use it to compile accurate reports. Is it an environmentalists' conspiracy? You be the judge.

Damn right MB... keep on keepin on...      

[71charger_fan]

Used to see low 130s during the summer in Baghdad.

[Old Moparz]

That time I went to the Sun was hot, if I recall it was about 10,000 degrees in the shade that week.

[Kern Dog]

There are some real BAD asses here! I am really impressed!
I have In-Laws in Scottsdale AZ. They have periods in the 115-118 range. I just can't understand why anyone would move there. I am an outdoor guy. I work outdoors, I work on cars a lot outdoors....Those temperatures are just horrible.

[Patronus]

Dont remember much hotter than a Ft. Benning GA road side.

[Bob T]

Worked in ''burner alley'' next to the big kiln at the glass works ambient 131' F, had golden needle arm protectors and flameproof mask thing and glasses while fitting the cables to the 11kv boost electrodes 1200A each set x 12 sets, 20min max and rehydrate or your brain feels like a shrivelled walnut

Regularly work in 7.8F in the huge storage freezers at an ice cream factory, we have full freezer kit on though, have done 45mins and equal warm up time afterwards. Usually eat chocolate icecreams to warm up  , helps up blood sugar level as well

[Todd Wilson]

Last summer in Kansas I worked in 113.   I think last summer we had hotter days but this year is was consistantly 105+ for 6 weeks  or more. Last summer there were several 110+ plus days. 
I'll take the heat over the cold winter any time!


Todd

[TK73]

Worked in?  About 100

Dealt with no a/c home or truck?  About 108 - high humidity in AR

[tan top]

working in a body shop  rubbing Bondo  with a long board & 40 grit  at 100 * is something  not to be missed 

[TK73]

working in a body shop  rubbing Bondo  with a long board & 40 grit  at 100 * is something  not to be missed 

Er, I'll pass... was wet sanding the '73 hood this last January in the Seattle cold/rain outside in the driveway... kinda sucked... at least no cloud of Bondo to inhale.

[Lennard]

Local Weather °F Monday
High 116°/ Low 91°
113°
Partly Cloudy

This was today, the past few weeks we had some 118 days.