What is the hottest place you have ever been?

[Jonnusthegreat]

No it wasn't. It's never been 120 in iowa.

Must have been thinking of heat index then, I guess. Because it was. Just heat index.

[Tradu]

Are you Frosty the Snowman? 20 is pretty much death to me if I have to be outside for long. Give me a nice 72 with a light breeze.

At 72 on the same temperature scale as I used, you'd be dead.

[Ripster42]

Must have been thinking of heat index then, I guess. Because it was. Just heat index.

Yeah, the humidity there gets nasty. A bunch of the state was a marsh before field tiles.


edit: wow, spelling.

[Eggroll]

Egypt, Luxor, Valley of the Kings. it was like 111 degrees Farenheit, 44 Celsius. That was not funny

[Tradu]

0 F Very cold
100 F Very hot

0 C Pretty cold
100 C Dead

0 K Dead
100 K Dead

So basically Kelvin and Celsius are mass murderers, while Fahrenheit is a good guy.

[Socialhealer]

0 F Very cold
100 F Very hot

0 C Pretty cold
100 C Dead

0 K Dead
100 K Dead

you can survive 100C + in saunas for a few minutes, maximum is about 160C, it's all about the humidity, because 160C in an oven for a few minutes will burn you badly.

[Themerlin]

India and Dubai

India for the heat and humidity that can kill.

Dubai for the days that get up to 45-50*celcius

Europe in the last 20 years just keeps getting hotter every summer.

[Dacien]

Installing solar panels in Palm Desert during a heatwave in 2014. We used this special goo called Geocel to smear on any holes or openings to plug them up. It's real sticky and gooey and hardens over time.

Not in Palm Desert at 120 degrees Fahrenheit though. That stuff just melted off the roof in slow streams, as if dozens of large, invisible snails were making an escape off the roof. I started getting dizzy and out of it; It felt like the heat was making my brain sizzle. We got it done though, and I only had to spend a week or so in the hospital.

Just kidding about the hospital.

[Khaza-R]

Highest I can remember was hiking the Mojave in 118 F / 48 C

However hottest heat index was Las Vegas. There was a freak rainstorm 2 days before and the temperature was 109 F with 40% humidity.

[schwarzkopf]

Queensland, Australia.
Can get up to 40degrees in summer
roads melt

lol - up to
Can get way over 40C, and what's worse is not only is the air temperature really high - the solar radiation and ultra violet are way higher than what you get in the US mainland.

[Eggroll]

egypt.
dont remember the name of the place tho. (somewhere along the red sea coast)
been there with my brother, nephew and sister in law over the holidays.
the hottest it ever got while we were there was 49/48°C i believe.

the bare sun literally (and i mean literally) fried the skin off my nose.

the hotel was beautiful tho.

It was probably either Hurghada or Sharm el Sheik I've been to Hurghada once for holiday

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lol - up to
Can get way over 40C, and what's worse is not only is the air temperature really high - the solar radiation and ultra violet are way higher than should be legal.

Hehe, sue the sun

[Themerlin]

Iran near Shiraz was like 40+
Utterly oppressive, but worth it to see Persepolis.

And apparently bloody Glasgow... it was 31 degrees today.

Iran is in my dream list for traveling. Never been, and sooo much beauty to see and history.

Hopefully one day.

[draynay]

122 F / 50 C in Bullhead City, AZ

[Shakadam]

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Somewhere around 40C. I don't complain about heat normally but that was a bit much.

[Zafire]

Laredo Texas when it was 112F. I rolled my windows up and just sat there sweating for a half hour. It's not something I ever got to experience in the state of NY really. I'm one of those people that actually enjoys how I feel after sweating a bucket load.

[Shadowferal]

Reading this thread has me jonesing for Autumn.

[Naiattavain]

joshua tree national park, death valley, baker california, las vegas nevada, primm.

[NoRest4Wicked]

Probably Fallujah/Ramadi Iraq. 110-115F, felt like 150 in those blue porta-shitters. God those were terrible to use.

[JohnBrown1917]

55C in dead valley, better avoid that place.

[Klaiden Potugye]

Nice job exaggerating. The highest temp ever recorded on Earth was 134F, and was 90 years ago.

Like every other temperature it was recorded in SHADE.

Staying on the sun in BDU's is another story completely.

But what do I know. Continue to kneel.