What's the warmest temperature you ever experienced.

[mikegeukes]

What's the warmest temperature you ever experienced.

Myself: 113 Las Vegas, Nevada

My hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 1960,
we had only hit 100 degrees twice. Hiighest heat index,
I have experienced was 121 and 126 degrees, locations
where Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.

I remember seeing a Heat Index once for Cedar Rapids, Iowa
of 134 degrees before.

Mike
http://mgweather.com

[Bill Hamilton]

The highest for me was 117 degrees in Yuma Arizona

[Joel Wright]

Well I've only experienced actual temperatures just over 100, but in 1995 during the tremendous midwest heatwave I experienced a heat index of 123. That was with a temperature of 100, and a dewpoint of 81 or 82 I believe. I have never before or since seen or heard of a temp at the century mark with dewpoints near 80. That same day in Cedar Rapids IA the dewpoint hit 84 degrees and the heat index surpassed 130. This is also the same heatwave that killed over 500 people in Chicago and killed thousands of cattle in Iowa...

[Carrie Halliday]

109F in Ephrata, Washington on my thermometer in the shade. Sometime in the later 90s, was a HOT one. The Central Basin is known for baking in the dead of summer. Thank god for central air!!

[Mike Hollingshead]

114 Blair Nebraska quite a few years ago.

[Robert Dewey]

Highest temperature ever experienced was 124F in Death Valley, CA on the way to Las Vegas back in '94 or '95 (this maybe a record for the day as well, as I believe Las Vegas set a record). As for hottest temp in MI ever experienced would have to be in '95, when temps hit 100-102F, with high humidity (not sure what the Td's were).

[Dan Cook]

106 for me during Chicago's killer heat wave.

[Dan Robinson]

Several days in a row over 100F in Charleston, WV in 1988. 125F or more every time I get in my truck after it's been sitting out on a hot summer day :)

[Shane Adams]

Early September, 2000

It was the hottest September day ever recorded in Dallas, TX - 111 degrees. And of all the September days to build a deck, we picked that one.

That's the hottest official temperature that I know of......I'm fairly certain I've experienced hotter days, growing up my entire life in southern Oklahoma. I remember the Summer that OK set its all-time state high of 120, so it's a safe bet I've experienced some 1teens.

[Jeff Wear]

113F in Turlock CA in July 1991

about Dan R's note about car temps - I keep a thermometer inside my car and it has recorded some unreal temps when sitting out on a summer day. The highest temperature I've seen inside my car so far is 158F.

[Nick Smith]

The highest measured local temperature I've experienced was 103°F outside on July 30, 1999 (here in Cincinnati). That was the air ambient temperature, but the unshielded thermometer read 109°F. The temperature may have been higher on some day in 1988, but I didn't have a thermometer capable of keeping the high/low temperatures.

Sometimes the temperature on my unfinished second floor will reach 110-115°F on days when the outside temperature is in the 90s. I once tried to measure the temperature inside a car (windows up), the thermometer needle went past the maximum written number of 130°F on the dial.

[Richard Halter]

107 in 1977 in Mt. Angel, OR, had days of 107, 107 and 105 in a row.

[Jenifer Henslee]

108 °F in Amarillo, TX in June 1990, and 1998 (two days in a row) That's the all time high for Amarillo.

I've been in a much hotter heat index when I was at Lake Conroe N. of Houston in the summer of 2001. (~110- 120)

[Laura Duchesne]

I experienced 113 ºF when camping, I think in the late 90s on southern Lake Huron. It was HELL :sad2:

[Bob Schafer]

First week of April, 1989, I was in PHX for the Indy Car race at PIR.

PHX had a record high set every day that week, each day over 100 (only April, though), and I was out in the bleachers watching the racing.

There were some stands selling lemonade, and I remember race day drinking 5 or 6 of these huge (probably 32 oz.) lemonades without ever visiting the men's room.

Bob

[KMcCallister]

In terms of official observations, I was present for Wichita Fall's record high of 117F on 6-28-1980. I was 10 years old and remember being fascinated with how quickly the water I sprayed on the ground evaporated and how quickly birds would appear at the first sign of water.

It was a period where Wichita Falls had record highs which still stand:

6-24-80 112F
6-25-80 114F
6-26-80 113F
6-27-80 116F
6-28-80 117F
6-29-80 112F
6-30-80 110F
7-1-80 113F
7-2-80 114F
7-3-80 114F
7-4-80 108F

[Ben Engle]

What's the warmest temperature you ever experienced.



I remember seeing a Heat Index once for Cedar Rapids, Iowa
of 134 degrees before.

Mike
http://mgweather.com

Welcome to my world. I live in Cedar Rapids, and it probably snowed the next day.

[John Diel]

Well, the best I know of was about 15 years ago at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. North Range registered temps of 120 F. I know it was hot in that chopper!

[Marc Grant]

117 degrees in Needles, California. Quite a shock to jump out on the pavement with bare feet. :shock:

[Jay McCoy]

108 °F in Amarillo, TX in June 1990, and 1998 (two days in a row) That's the all time high for Amarillo.

Those were some miserable days for sure. Damn cap held on that day in 98 too when we had CAPE of around 5500, LI of -11 and SRH of 300. if anything popped it would have ben monsterous but the 700mb temp was like a 16 or 17 so nothing. I sat in the east panhandle roasting all afternoon in 70 plus dewpoints hoping but no dice.

[Melissa Moon]

At least 110 with high humidity...fun times!

[Greg Campbell]

About 7 years ago, I took the 'scenic' route through Death Valley on my way from Southern California to Utah. DV has always been a favorite of mine, but I'd never experienced it in the middle of July. :roll:

Forseeing the opportunity of setting a possible 'lifetime record,' I borrowed an accurate electronic thermometer from work. The highest air temerature I recorded was near the Keane mine site. A stiff breeze was blowing down from the Funeral mountains, probably giving me some compressional heating. The mountains were also reflecting the early afternoon sun, making the whole area into a low level solar furnace. Never before or since have I felt heat like that. It seemed as if the rocks should be melting, but the highest (shaded) air temp was 'only' 124.6 F, a slight disapointment! The sun baked ground was more impressive, indeed fearsome, with several wind sheltered areas tickling 190 :shock:

Later in the afternoon, after establishing a campsite at Texas Spring, I tried some very limited hiking in nearby Golden Canyon (very easy going, I've done the 5 mile round trip to Zabriskie Point many times). The temperature was down to the mid/low teens, but after only ~1/2 mile, the gallon of water I started with was nearly gone and I was just wiped. I crawled back to the car, retrieved my sleeping gear, and and got the hell out of that place...

How on earth can people do this?? http://www.badwaterultra.com/

-Greg

[Jared Mysko]

I think we got into the 40's once. I know we hit 39 C a couple of times over the past few years.

I will have to look for the record for Saskatoon because I actually have no idea how hot it has gotten.

Jared

[Susan Strom]

125 degrees F was the ambient air temp one day as I walked out of a building in Laughlin, Nevada, a Colorado River town not far from Needles and Lake Havasu. Most people don't visit there in June.

[Jeff Snyder]

On the note of the warmest experienced... I don't know what the records are, but this is from an AFD out of DDC a couple days ago:
"SO JUST WHERE HAS OUR LATE JUNE SUMMER WARMTH GONE? HEAD TO THE
ARCTIC! AN "OMEGA BLOCK" UPPER AIR LONGWAVE PATTERN HAS PUSHED VERY
HIGH MIDDLE-UPPER TROPOSPHERIC HEIGHT ANOMALIES INTO THE ARCTIC
REGIONS OF THE YUKON AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF NORTHWEST CANADA.
INUVIK (IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA)...LOCATED TWO
DEGREES LATITUDE NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE...RECORDED AN EARLY
EVENING TEMPERATURE OF 86F, AND MAYO, YUKON TERRITORY (3 DEGREES
LATITUDE SOUTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE) RECORDED A TEMPERATURE OF 93F
ALSO AT 00Z.
"

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KDDC/0406260732.fxus63.html

[Matteo Calzà]

37.2°C / 99.22°F here in my town on august 10th, 2003 (the hottest summer of ever).

For luck the daily humidity was around 25%, but it was in any case hot
:?

Look how hot was in the mountain too: 35°C/94°F on 1,000 mt (town of Andalo) !

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[Tim Vasquez]

Excellent question... not sure why I didn't think to ask it. It was July 4, 1991 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had reached 112°F that day.. for some reason at the time I had thought it was a record but it wasn't.

Was anyone around for that 121°F in Phoenix in June 1990? Cripes! They had to close the airport for a few hours because they were worried about planes blowing out their tires. I did a writeup on this back then for the old AWO publication... maybe I'll look around for it sometime.

Tim

[Jeff Wear]

On the note of the warmest experienced... I don't know what the records are, but this is from an AFD out of DDC a couple days ago:
"SO JUST WHERE HAS OUR LATE JUNE SUMMER WARMTH GONE? HEAD TO THE ARCTIC! AN "OMEGA BLOCK" UPPER AIR LONGWAVE PATTERN HAS PUSHED VERY HIGH MIDDLE-UPPER TROPOSPHERIC HEIGHT ANOMALIES INTO THE ARCTIC REGIONS OF THE YUKON AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF NORTHWEST CANADA. INUVIK (IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA)...LOCATED TWO DEGREES LATITUDE NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE...RECORDED AN EARLY EVENING TEMPERATURE OF 86F, AND MAYO, YUKON TERRITORY (3 DEGREES LATITUDE SOUTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE) RECORDED A TEMPERATURE OF 93F ALSO AT 00Z.

I was quite amazed to see the GFS consistently forecast temps in the low to mid 90s for northwestern Canada and the Alaska interior last week. I went and looked up the all-time high for Mayo and found it was 97F so they didn't miss that by much. Inuvik's all-time high is 88F. Although I saw 30C/86F on several METARs in a row at Inuvik last week, it's possible they could have reached 31C/88F in between observations. But the observation from Inuvik that impressed me the most was this.....

SPECI CYEV 220737Z 13009KT 15SM +TSRA BKN013CB BKN050 OVC090 RMK CB5SC2AC2

Yes that is heavy rain and thunder they were reporting. Amazing considering how close they are to the shores of the Arctic Ocean!

[Susan Strom]

Was anyone around for that 121°F in Phoenix in June 1990? Cripes! They had to close the airport for a few hours because they were worried about planes blowing out their tires

I was living in Northern California at the time, but still to this day people talk about that day once in awhile. Actually, Sky Harbor hit a withering 122°F that day. What I heard about the airport was that the FAA's operational guidelines for aircraft by the book only went as high as 120°F and because of this, planes were grounded as there was no operational parameter for temps above that range! That is my understanding, but any aviators, correct me if I'm wrong on that.

It doesn't normally get that high in Phx. But out in western Arizona and the California deserts in the harsher climate, Yuma and the Colorado River cities might see that. The terrain out there is noticeably different, much drier. You don't see the same desert plants and vegetation such as lush undergrowth and saguaro like that around Phx. You see a lot of creosote bush (chaparral) but that plant is so tough it could grow on Mars. This is a plant that actually manufactures its own herbicide, to kill off anything growing in its canopy that might compete for its water! However, it is also the plant that releases the aroma that everybody likes during Monsoon rains.

But western Arizona, although forbidding esp this time of year, is a surprising place. Enter one of the mountain ranges out there, such as the extremely rugged KOFA (stands for King of Arizona mine) and you will find native palms and bighorn sheep, perfectly at home on the crags. I have hiked back in there and seen the critters myself, just standing right in front of me. The temp drops quite a bit inside the shelter of the mountains. Although outside of tinajas (small rare pools of rainwater, if you're lucky) water is extremely scarce. I never go there in the summer's searing heat, that's for sure.

[Richard Halter]

I do know that there were limitations at Phoenix during the great heat wave on airplane traffic because the air was so warm that there was concern about the aircraft being able to produce sufficient lift in the heat as well.

[Simone Lussardi]

I have experienced the following on my skin:

Temp: +39 C

Dew: +31 C

Location: Wuhan, the hottest city of China

Time: July 17th, 2002

I'll post the sounding of that hell of day as soon as the website will start to work again. It has been a hell, the Heat Index was over +60 C for all the afternoon. I would NEVER want to experience something like that again. In the evening we had storms, you can imagine the CAPE....

:? :wink:

[Greg Campbell]

Was anyone around for that 121°F in Phoenix in June 1990? Cripes! They had to close the airport for a few hours because they were worried about planes blowing out their tires

I was living in Northern California at the time, but still to this day people talk about that day once in awhile. Actually, Sky Harbor hit a withering 122°F that day. What I heard about the airport was that the FAA's operational guidelines for aircraft by the book only went as high as 120°F and because of this, planes were grounded as there was no operational parameter for temps above that range! That is my understanding, but any aviators, correct me if I'm wrong on that.

(As a non-aviator) that sounds about right. As Richard points out, aircraft loose substantial lift and power as the altitude density decreases. AFAIK, part of a pilots' pre-flight involves calculating take off distance and other critical flight parameters using handy charts and tables in the plane's "users manual." If the manufacturer's performance data stops at 120, proceedures may bar the pilot/engineer from extrapolating.


But western Arizona, although forbidding esp this time of year, is a surprising place. Enter one of the mountain ranges out there, such as the extremely rugged KOFA (stands for King of Arizona mine) and you will find native palms and bighorn sheep, perfectly at home on the crags. I have hiked back in there and seen the critters myself, just standing right in front of me. The temp drops quite a bit inside the shelter of the mountains. Although outside of tinajas (small rare pools of rainwater, if you're lucky) water is extremely scarce. I never go there in the summer's searing heat, that's for sure.

I'm glad at least one other person on earth understand the charm of desert hiking. :) When I tell friends and relatives of my plans to tromp around Death Valley, they look at me as if I was completely insane. (I think they imagine a madman wandering the playa at high noon.) As you point out a little elevation and a canyon's shelter make all the difference. Apart from the cooler, wooded highlands, DV has dozens of unique canyons that I find utterly fascinating. They offer gorgeous scenery, wildly varied geology/fossils, and surprisingly abundant plant and animal life.

Having recently moved to Tucson, I'm looking forward to making trips to the Salt River area this fall.

-Greg

[tony rogers]

the hottest temp iv'e ever been in was 111 F on july 16,2001. looks like it'l breakn that record

[Jim Southard]

Ah, yes, Death Valley. Wonderful, scenic Death Valley. When I was living in southern California, I remember one June day when we "broke in" a buddy's brand new Explorer Sport Trac by taking it out to the desert. That was our first mistake.

We went out into the Mojave Desert... I'd say it was somewhere between 110-115 at that point. Our driver decided he needed to go off the paved roads... that was our second mistake.

He decided to leave the dirt road we were on near Afton Canyon (a notoriously sandy place where the Mojave River ends). That was our third mistake.

We tried not to tell him to drive into the river sink... but he wouldn't listen. He thought he could handle it. We should have jumped out. That was our fourth mistake.

After we got the gigantic beast un-stuck from the sand, back on the dirt road, and finally back on the paved road, we went to Baker for lunch. That was our fifth mistake.

We had a very questionable lunch, and headed out. When we left Baker, the World's Tallest Thermometer read 121. Instead of going home, our esteemed driver decided to head north on CA 127 to Death Valley. Not killing him then and there was our sixth mistake.

Thank goodness for air conditioning! Death Valley actually was very cool... not too many people braved the heat that day, so we had everything pretty much to ourselves. I do remember getting out of the car near Badwater, and almost bursting immediately into flames. I think "Aaaah! My a** is on fire!" were my exact words...

We didn't have a thermometer with us, so I don't know exactly how hot it was in Death Valley that day. It felt significantly hotter in DV than it was in Baker, and based on the reported high of 128 that day, we guessed that at the time we passed through, it was 126 degrees.

Although I think Yuma wins the heat index prize... I've seen numerous obs there and in California's adjacent Imperial Valley where the heat indices were well over 130. Wonder what it must be like to the south, on the Mexican shores of the Gulf of California? <shudder>

[Austin Ivey]

Growing up in SE Texas where the dewpoints commonly exceeded 75F for 7 months of the year, I experienced heat indices above 110F nearly everyday from mid-June to late August. The hottest temperature I remember however, was during the infamous s. texas heat wave of 2000 when all time record temperatures were broken. This is really something considering it is already hot down there most of the year. The temp where I was going to college reached 114F during the afternoon with a dew around 65. Miserable!

I heard a lady say it was hot here in Los Alamos yesterday when the temp. was 78 and the dew was 35. Also, when it rains and the dewpoint "shoots" up to a whooping 45 (like yesterday) people call it muggy! They don't realize how good they have it up here at 7500 feet.

[Sarah Albyn]

For me 105 with a heat index of 115 and I think the dew point was well over 70 in Bristol WI at a horse show!

It was nasty!

[Susan Strom]

Greg wrote
I'm glad at least one other person on earth understand the charm of desert hiking. When I tell friends and relatives of my plans to tromp around Death Valley, they look at me as if I was completely insane. (I think they imagine a madman wandering the playa at high noon.) As you point out a little elevation and a canyon's shelter make all the difference. Apart from the cooler, wooded highlands, DV has dozens of unique canyons that I find utterly fascinating. They offer gorgeous scenery, wildly varied geology/fossils, and surprisingly abundant plant and animal life.


What's wild about the desert is the highly adapted, extremely clever animal and plant life, which is everywhere (just not apparent from car windows). People have to walk though the desert to see how alive it is, it is amazing. It is a funny feeling that in the desert, you are always being watched... by owls, hawks, foxes, cats, big horn sheep, many eyes looking.

The other thing that's wild is how time is laid bare for all to see, in the rock, the petrogylphs, or ruins of 1000 year old Indian dwellings just sitting there out in the open in arid landscapes. That is really cool. But it is hot this time of year, not the time to go ambling about. Nov-March is amazing. Or see the spring bloom.

DV is also a wild place. One can go from the lowest point in the US (Badwater at over -250) to Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the continental US at 14k+, in the same day's drive.

DV can get warm certain times of year, no doubt. Some places simply have cold or hot seasonal limitations for humans. Aside from that, running around on DV's wavy fun sand dunes in February is pure joy.

Summer heat notwithstanding, I would never have named the place Death Valley, Funeral Mountains, Badlands, etc. Names like that just show a lack of understanding and appreciation. When the ranges surrounding Death Valley turned purple at sunset, the dunes turned shadowy and the wind whispered in my ear, "Death" never crossed my mind. I could think of many other names.

No matter how extreme the terrain of a place, it would be better to just call it like it is instead of naming a place something that might devalue it. That makes excuses for harming the environment, leaving mining tailings, illegal dumping or polluting the water. Why not, it's "Devil's Golf Course", so who cares?

I like a name that describes how a place really is. For Death Valley, there are better words: Vast, Wild, Diverse, Endless, Crags, Dunes, Shadows, Changing, Windy, Starry, Mountain, Fortress. Any other name but Death.

<end soapbox>

[W. Grant Dade]

Interesting subject for my first post. My hottest temp was 111°F at Elthswoth AFB, SD(very dry heat) and in Warner Robins, GA 1986. The temp in Warner Robins was measured at my house. I think the high at RAFB was 109°F. THe highest heat index I can remember was 127°F with an air temp of 107°F also in Warner Robins, GA. South Central Georgia gets too hot. Moved away in the late 80's and wont go back.

[Steve Jackson]

My hottest experience was on vacation in September 1990 on the Greek island of Rhodes, in a town called Lindos. The outside temp in the shade hit 130F with no wind at all. It was a relief to get back to the town I was staying at with a cool temp of 110F with a slight breeze blowing. Hottest temp at home in the UK was 101F in 1986 i think it was. Over in the UK we are sweating if it hits 80F !!

[Greg Campbell]

Originally posted by Susan Strom


What's wild about the desert is the highly adapted, extremely clever animal and plant life, which is everywhere (just not apparent from car windows). People have to walk though the desert to see how alive it is, it is amazing.

That's half the battle - getting people out of their bloody cars. Even in a relatively reassuring environment like Yosemite, the vast majority don't wander more than a hundred yards from their vehicle. A sizeable fraction never leave the 'safety' of the car. Apart from Mosaic and Golden Canyons, I've met only -one- hiker in the all the other DV canyons I've hiked. Most of these, such as Fall and Grotto, are less than a mile from the trailhead/paved road.


DV can get warm certain times of year, no doubt. Some places simply have cold or hot seasonal limitations for humans. Aside from that, running around on DV's wavy fun sand dunes in February is pure joy.


Try it at night, under a full moon. ;)


Summer heat notwithstanding, I would never have named the place Death Valley, Funeral Mountains, Badlands, etc. Names like that just show a lack of understanding and appreciation.

In the emigrant's defense, after surviving the arid desolation of central Utah and Nevada, taking a wrong turn into DV would be a rather discouraging turn of events. Using or adding the original Shoshone names to local features would be a nice gesture, as would giving the Timbisha tribe autonomy over partions of the park and/or it's operation.

-Greg

[Simone Lussardi]

Anyone ever experienced a heat index greater of 140 F ? :roll:

Just curios, since seems my post has not been a surprise to you.

http://62.202.7.134/hpbo/images/6641.gif

PS: sorry, it was 16 July 2002 and not 17 as I wrote above

PS 2: Wuhan is located on the 30 N....

[Jacquie Kukuk]

I live in Yuma, AZ and on July 28, 1995 we recorded 126 for the high (this was the same day they had to close Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix). Yeh, it was hot! :D

Jacquie

[Charles Kuster]

The warmest temperature I have ever been in was 128 degrees F, in Death Valley California in July of 2002. This was the official reading at Furnace Creek on July 9th, 2002.

[B Ozanne]

Anyone ever experienced a heat index greater of 140 F ?

Just curios, since seems my post has not been a surprise to you.

Simone, that is very imrpessive. It slipped by me because you had those numbers in celsius. We all appreciate the scientific values of the metric system in the States but they are hard to visualize. When someone tells you the temp is going to be 35C you think hot. For me, I have to think about it, do a quick conversion to Fahrenheit, and then compare it to what I know as hot.

Southeast Asia really kicks butt in terms of heat indices. Although absolute temps are the highest in deserts, dry air often means the heat index is lower than the air temp. Some of the highest heat indices I have experienced were in Thailand, 110's & 120's. For actual air temp 110's in Utah, nothing compared to what some of you have seen.

[Simone Lussardi]

Anyone ever experienced a heat index greater of 140 F ?

Just curios, since seems my post has not been a surprise to you.

Simone, that is very imrpessive. It slipped by me because you had those numbers in celsius. We all appreciate the scientific values of the metric system in the States but they are hard to visualize. When someone tells you the temp is going to be 35C you think hot. For me, I have to think about it, do a quick conversion to Fahrenheit, and then compare it to what I know as hot.

Southeast Asia really kicks butt in terms of heat indices. Although absolute temps are the highest in deserts, dry air often means the heat index is lower than the air temp. Some of the highest heat indices I have experienced were in Thailand, 110's & 120's. For actual air temp 110's in Utah, nothing compared to what some of you have seen.

Yeh, that's why I repeat with the °F, I guess the reason was that :wink:

By the way yes... SE Asia is terrible for combination of heat and humidity, especially in central China's provinces, where we usually have a couple of week of high pressure at 500 HP centered over central China in July/August, with SW flow to pump up a blob of hot humid air at 850 hpa (>30°C, with dews well near 30°C as well....). The result is a powerful inversion with incredible temperature below and humidity stellar due to the watery plains of central China.

The effect is a HELL, my wife was born in Wuhan and she does not feel hot even here in the tropics :lol:

Of course the energy in such situation is a loaded nuclear weapon, with dews in the order of 30°C and temps around 39°C, when the inversion breaks supercells can form even with a very weak shear. That year, after the hot wave, a supercell form north of my location devasting a huge area with tornadoes, hail and winds. Unfortunately many people perished.

:wink:

[Lorraine Evans]

The warmest temperature I ever experienced was in Needles, CA. Whilst we were on holiday in the States we had to pass through there and so we stayed at the KOA campsite and it was so hot, hot, hot! I think they said it got up to around 121 degrees that day (this was back in 1998). We literally could not move for the heat and I kept getting nose bleeds it was that bad. It finally warmed down in the evening but it was the first time I had experienced heat like that for a few years and it hit me hard. Coming from the climate that we have here in the UK, that sort of heat can be intense if you have not felt it for a while!

[mikepearis]

There are 3 different times that come to mind for me. 1st was in Mountain Home Idaho in 1988 or 1999 when it hit 108 or 109 degrees. I was on a detail cleaning out a quonset hut full of junk and thought I was gonna die. I was also in Phoenix one day in summer 1990 when it hit 120 or so. I was driving a semi truck at the time and had to go pick up potato's out by Queens Creek and the workers had me turn the A/C unit in the trailer on so that it would blow on them while they loaded the truck. I also remember back in 1984 here in KC when it hit 107 or so. I worked at a gas station on summer break and was outside pumping gas and fixing flat tires all day and I had a terrible heat rash after that. I also remeber driving home in a '76 Grand Prix with leather seats, no A/C and glass t-tops. Whew! Summer of 1980 also was extremely hot and dry here, something like 20 days in a row over 100 degrees. Compare to this year, hasn't even hit 90 yet, I think we are about to break a record for latest date to hit 90, last year the opposite, hot and dry.