jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

-10F. Ordinarily, it doesn't go below +10° here. It was in the 40s last week.

Also, the other extreme -

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Yes dustie I read your posts. Right now it’s -5 and whether my diesel tractor is setting in the shed or out in the wind, it won’t start. Wind or not, diesel fuel will be gelled. Now my livestock is a different story.

Hottest I’ve been was 118 according to a gas station thermometer in the Mojave Desert. I was on a motorcycle and I had to wrap a handkerchief around my face bandito style because the hot air actually hurt my face. Like when you open an oven door and the heat hurts your face.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Wet bulb temperatures are a means of including the effect of evaporative heat loss. With the world heating up, wet bulb temperatures will become increasingly important.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Our youngest son was homeschooled to an equivalent Grade 13, Honours English (Ontario had a grade 13 back then). He was 9 when he read "The Chronicles of Narnia". We've always been a family of 'books'. Keats and Schelley were some of my favourites. Kafka was one of my favourites and I made the mistake of letting our son know. This led to a darker side; he liked Kafka, too, maybe more than I did. This took him into the realm of Burroughs, etc. He even read Virgil's work...

An instance of his writing skills, I sent him a copy of an obit that was very unusual (it was a real obit): " Few obituaries begin with the words, "I am pleased to announce" – but Amanda Denis believes in blunt honesty.

When the Ontario resident's estranged father died halfway across the country in B.C.'s Okanagan, Denis felt compelled to share a few choice remarks about the man she describes as a "miserable human."

The obituary that resulted – which Denis ultimately had to publish on her own, after being rejected by her father's funeral home – clearly struck a nerve, getting shared thousands of times on social media.

"After suffering multiple strokes, one thankfully leaving him unable to speak, the abusive, narcissistic absentee father/husband/brother/son finally kicked the bucket," it reads.

"Because he treated people with disdain, there will be no service."

My son's response was, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum...but I never really believed in that saying, and the guy sounds like he was a proper bastard."

This demonstrates his literary skills.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Oh, mercy!! No one in your area sells winterized fuel?....or at least #1 kerosene so you can cut that diesel and make your own winterized fuel? If you get much snow to move, a tractor and blade or bucket can sure be handy.

Years ago, I was in Joshua Tree National Park with some other people. We weren't on motorcycles, so not that kind of hot wind to protect against.

We had parked the vehicle at a little spot of some kind and walked out a trail to some attraction or other, (it was somewhere around 3:30 - 4:00 p.m....hot part of the day, but I did not find it to be critically uncomfortable, personally.)
When we returned to the vehicle, a couple of the other people who had been really bellyaching about the heat went over to an information booth or restroom building, or something that was there.
They returned to the car pestering me to guess the temperature. I could tell they were trying to get me to commit to something so they could gloat over my missing the number. Well, I tried to equate what it felt like with hot temps I'd been in before in dry country. I guessed 103°F-105°F. Just like I thought, they smirked a lot and said go check that thermometer over there at that building.

Eventually, I did. It was in the shade showing 118°F. I don't recall how we found out, but the humidity there right then was being reported at only 4%-5%. The air humidity has an effect on our bodies in both hot and cold temperature environments. I've been in 107°F-112°F temps at around 12%-18% humidiity, and it is noticeably more uncomfortable than that afternoon in Joshua Tree.
Can't imagine being in 118°F in say, Missouri or other parts east of the Rockies and eastward where hot temps go along with humidity levels of 70%-75% and upwards.

DennyM Loc: Masontown, WV

Here in the hills of West Virginia, It's in the single digits, but will get back up to 20 or 30 next week. It's been down to 24* below zero here before, can remember the front door was frozen shut with snow piled up against it, Hope that don't happen again. lol.........

jonyrot

Stanton, ND in the late 1990's it was -110 F with the wind chill. Told my boss; "NO!! I am not going out in this weather!"

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

I think you WIN.

scooter1 Loc: Yacolt, Wa.

Great start to get the attention and the rest is great.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

It did that... and I was hooked on Robert Service. There was a TV movie (in the 50s) about the Shooting of Dan McGrew. My mom told me about it being a poem and that she had the book... that was all it took.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Thanks to all who shared your stories. A lot of very interesting expieriences, and a few hilarious ones!!!

OwlHarbor Loc: Pacific North West USA

Worked in -39 temp and -30 in the USAF in my teens and 20ties. When it hit 20 we were in t-shirts but I don't miss it at all.

scooter1 Loc: Yacolt, Wa.

As you said the air's humidity has an effect on how temp feels. We run a dehumidifier during the winter and it actually makes 69 feel warmer than a humid 69.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

my wife's icy stare/glare

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Evaporation is a cooling process. It's the body's way of cooling a person when it is hot. When the air is really cool there is very little humidity; the cold air cannot hold moisture. With no humidity, a person can survive at 45C for a while. If this were humid (wet bulb temperature) this would not be the case, and death would occur shortly.