Hottest Temperature you have ever experienced (nights, degree, most, degrees)

[DannyBanany]

110 degrees at an outdoor concert in Denver, Colorado last summer. I was also surrounded by thousands of sweaty, stinky bodies that were either stoned or drunk.
I left early and went shopping in Boulder. It was raining there.

[vegaspilgrim]

Hottest temperature I ever experienced was last summer here in Phoenix. 117 degrees on the Fourth of July!

[mhouse2001]

122 in Phoenix in 1990. It was no different than any other day in my opinion. I think the human body experiences temperature most dramatically between say 50 and 100 with colder temperatures having a more profound effect/feeling than hotter. Above 100 pretty much all feels the same just as below zero does.

As to humidity, Phoenix doesn't have much which makes the heat completely bearable. I walk 2/3 mile 4 times a day back and forth to work and home for lunch every day year round. I set my a/c at a constant 84 in the summer. Humidity is the killer, though. I can't handle 80 with humidity but I sure can tolerate 110 without it.

By the way, the hottest spots in the world are along the shores of the Persian Gulf. The dew point can get up to 96 which is the same as saying it's 96 and foggy outside (100% humidity).

[§AB]

Same with me, it's 104 here now and the humidity is at 13%, it is almost comfortable outside! On the other hand, 80-85 with 90% humidity really is uncomfortable!

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Can you describe how the air would feel?

A wet bulb thermometer here is probably more likely to grow green mold than go bone dry.

Don't know because I never experienced 1% humidity first hand. However I don't think it would feel any different than 10-15% humidity at a given temp.

[desert sun]

a few years back in Eastern New Mexico I remember the temp hit 109 when I was visiting friends.

[HighPlainsDrifter73]

105 degrees for me in the Chicago area. I believe that was the summer of 1995 which had several very hot record days along with intense humidity. My best friend those days was my air conditioner. I'm sure glad I supersized my air conditioner unit when I built my house.

[happ]

I remember June 1990 hitting 112 in downtown LA [that was unreal heat so close to the ocean. Summer 2006 was as hot as it gets [I hope] & the humidity felt like Texas but ocean temps shot up obove 80F so the beach was the best relief.

[mdp_az]

124 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. To add insult to injury, I was working that day in a sales position, getting in and out of my hot car and walking across numerous parking lots. Thankfully, the humidity was hovering around 5% or something obscenely low like that, so in the shade it was tolerable. I wrapped up my work early and sat by the pool. I had to jump in the water every 10 min. or so to cool off and would be bone dry within about 3 minutes due to the low humidity and slight breeze.

While that was the hottest air temp, the highest heat index would be in Raleigh - 104F with heat index around 117. I'll take the dry heat any day over humidity.

[richt71]

My father booked us into a condo in Palm Springs for vacation in August 1992! It reached 112 I believe. Far..far too hot even for someone that likes very hot weather.

[ivanabacowboy]

Fairly Comfortable "Sure it's warm but not too bad" Hottest temperature: 115' the day I arrived in Phoenix last year.

Ickiest "OMG I am going to die" hot temperature: The all-time high in Cleveland was either 102' or 104' with like 95% humidity (there was remnants of some hurricane moving in). That was the most horrific awful icky icky icky heat I have ever experienced. I wanted to go for a walk. Opened the door, felt like I stepped into a shower: promptly closed the door and went back inside and stayed there until the hurricane remnant finished rolling in and dropped it into the 60s or so by the next day. ;0