View Full Version : Hottest and lowest temps ever recorded on Earth.
I thought this was a pretty interesting list to browse through.
F You Singapore!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth#Highest_temp erature_ever_recorded
That hottest temp in the UK was about the time we were packing up all my stuff ready to move here. Hardly any AC in private homes in the UK, and definitely not in the 100 year old house I was living in. We were so miserable, dying to get over to Florida just to cool down.
I also like looking at when each record was set. It seems like most of them were around 50-60 years ago, and the other ones were within the last ten years.
clublights
06-15-2010, 01:20
I also like looking at when each record was set. It seems like most of them were around 50-60 years ago, and the other ones were within the last ten years.
gee that wouldn't be because weather is cyclic......... must be global warming. [Bang][Rant1]
I know what you are saying (I had a similar thought), but you really can't make that kind of conclusion with this data, since it is just one data point for each place.
clublights
06-15-2010, 01:27
well not from JUST This data......... but I am pretty darn sure that if you see when the records were set from before these ones it's around 100 years......
they call em 100 year floods/storms. FOR A REASON!
DD977GM2
06-15-2010, 03:12
When i was in the Persian Gulf.....there was a cargo ship with 54 or so containers in a hold below decks. We took infared temp measurements. The temp read 144 to 146 F. It was a long day that day.
crzy_one
06-15-2010, 03:56
I remember cruising around town with my dad in June 1990 in Phoenix when it hit 122 that was fun...
I always told people that visited that it wasn't that bad until it was over 112 but most people couldn't stand it over 100...
Fastest temperature rise: 27 °C (49 °F) in 2 minutes
That must have been pretty weird to experience!
Lots of interesting statistics on that page, like the one about getting almost 6ft of rain in a 24 hour period...
Colorado Osprey
06-15-2010, 06:39
That must have been pretty weird to experience!
Lots of interesting statistics on that page, like the one about getting almost 6ft of rain in a 24 hour period...
About the opposite of what we see here with hail storms.... Dropping 20-30 degrees in under 10 minutes. Last week I saw a 40 degree temp drop in just under 15 minutes.
Jumpstart
06-15-2010, 07:27
That must have been pretty weird to experience!
Lots of interesting statistics on that page, like the one about getting almost 6ft of rain in a 24 hour period...
Really. Talk about freaking people out!
Valle Crucis, North Carolina is where my family home has been for generations. It's located in the mountains besides a 70 foot valley. There is a one foot deep "creek" running along the bottom of that valley. In the past 100 years, it has flooded the house (on TOP of the mountain) by flash floods (read - one day rain storm) twice! So a valley (pretty large one at that) several miles long, gets full in less than a day... that is some freaky stuff.
I have some family I regularly visit down in Florida around Christmas and love to remind them that they don't need sweaters in 65 degree weather. I also enjoy the crazy ass looks you get walking around in a t-shirt and shorts.
cowboykjohnson
06-15-2010, 08:46
I have some family I regularly visit down in Florida around Christmas and love to remind them that they don't need sweaters in 65 degree weather. I also enjoy the crazy ass looks you get walking around in a t-shirt and shorts.
+1 we were in Phoenix in early spring, and everyone was running around in winter coats... it was like 70 degrees.
cmailliard
06-15-2010, 09:44
Here is a pic of the Blackwater Range in Baghdad. That's in the shade.
http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp51/cm2047/147Aug112008.jpg
cowboykjohnson
06-15-2010, 09:46
that looks like a comfortable temperature!
cowboykjohnson
06-15-2010, 09:51
F You Singapore!
they do seem to have very moderate temps... with a record low of 66 and a record high off 90 something. Wow
Here is a pic of the Blackwater Range in Baghdad. That's in the shade.
http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp51/cm2047/147Aug112008.jpg
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wow, no thanks
About the opposite of what we see here with hail storms.... Dropping 20-30 degrees in under 10 minutes. Last week I saw a 40 degree temp drop in just under 15 minutes.
They have a temp drop record on the page as well.
I also love seeing people wearing heavy clothes in what I consider "shorts" weather.
worst I have been in was 135 in phoenix on the ramp at the airport. walking to the place felt like the soles of your shoes were gum.
Must be that global warming stuff sticking to your shoe
worst I have been in was 135 in phoenix on the ramp at the airport. walking to the place felt like the soles of your shoes were gum.
(Supposedly, as I didn't see the thermometer) 155 on the ramp at K2 airbase in Uzbekistan. I referred to it as God's Hairdryer. It was so hot it was difficult to breathe and I thought I was going to actually burst into flames any second. But at least it was a dry heat. ;)
Troublco
06-16-2010, 19:43
I often wonder who is the official recorder of that shit...
I have pictures of 110 in the shade in Kuwait... in the springtime...
it was nothing to see 110 at 0300hrs in July-August
I have sat and watched CARC bubble in the sun on a 130 day
Seriously... the greatest thing about summertime in Kuwait and Iraq is that it got so hot that Bugs wouldn't come out
[Eek3]
I remember Kuwait in July, 120+ during the day and never less than 100 at night. We didn't dare touch the aircraft or equipment without gloves on. When we were leaving, I had put some large hydraulic hoses into black trash bags to keep them from getting everything else dirty. I had done this around sunup. By 10 am, the sun was on them and the bags had melted around the hoses.
The bugs wouldn't come out, but only during the day. I got so sick of having camel spiders try to be my friend or getting dive bombed by giant flying beetles at night, and I usually worked at night. And then there were the snakes.
I think Kuwait and Qatar were the two hottest, and as hot as Iraq was it wasn't quite as bad. Plus, the camel spiders there were less than half the size of the ones in Kuwait. And not nearly as many scorpions.
Troublco
06-16-2010, 19:46
(Supposedly, as I didn't see the thermometer) 155 on the ramp at K2 airbase in Uzbekistan. I referred to it as God's Hairdryer. It was so hot it was difficult to breathe and I thought I was going to actually burst into flames any second. But at least it was a dry heat. ;)
I've been told that you always add 10 degrees for the heat reflected off the ramp. So if it was 135, you're actually standing in 145 degree heat. I believe it, I remember thinking that the only thing it really reminded me of was when my mom would open the oven when she was baking cookies. Only, I was in the oven and there were no cookies....[ROFL1]
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