When I lived in Russia the temperature fell to minus 20 in winter, but the coldest I have ever
felt is waiting for a train at midnight in a wagon yard in Nyrkovo, Ukraine. The temperature was 'only' minus eight, but the wind made it incredibly cold: the air in my lungs hurt so much that I almost couldn't breathe, and words came out in a wheezy splutter.
I've never felt anything extremely hot - perhaps 35-odd degrees in South Africa when I was younger.
J.
Reply to this When I was living in Toronto, Canada it was -50C with the windchill factor for several months one winter. It made being outside for more than 5 mins impossible. People had to run in the streets to stop their feet getting too cold and to be able to get where they were going before their faces became numb. I put my hand on a metal door knob outside one time and got quite a severe frost burn. Golf balls sized snow flakes came down everyday for 6 months.
The hottest was around 45 C in Mexico. I sat in the shade in an icecream and juice shop all day just watching the world go by and drinking juice, because it seemed like the sensible thing to do with the temperatures so high.
Reply to this I can't compete with that! ;-)
The coldest it's been where I live now has been -10, the hottest I've expereinced is the low 40s in Australia.
Here in Japan, at least in the rural areas, they have temperature gauges like overhead street signs. I'm not sure how much confidence I have in them though - there's been occasions where I would've sworn it was 5 degrees colder for example than the previous day, yet the temperature monitor will say it's actually warmer!
Reply to this It got to 47C whilst I was in the Gobi in Mongolia, just before a huge rainstorm - although every night was freezing - I never had enough blankets!
Reply to this Coldest I've seen was -52C plus a bit of a windchill a few years ago, in the mountains at home in Canada. Warmest temp I've felt was about 50C, but inculdes the sun reflecting off a tin building. Air temp was acually 36C.
Reply to this When i went on a Nile cruise in Egypt, it went as high as 48 C. Some cruisers didn't bother to get off the boat because of the heat.
Reply to this Camping in the Land Rover in Eastern Mongolia....only minus 10 but ice on the inside of the windows is bloody cold for a queenslander.....the hottest....same trip....camping in the Gobi Desert.....ah Mongolia a land of extremes...
Reply to this When I lived in Aberdeen, Scotland during a very extreme and unusually cold winter we had temperatures of -18c. The hottest temperatures I have experienced on my travels were in the deserts of the Sultanate of Oman where they reached 42c. Blistering!
Reply to this Coldest: cross-country ski-ing in the Canadian Rockies in -23C and walking around Lake Louise at night in -25C. Hottest: in Perth, Australia with +34C. But I agree with MercuryCatcher and Vinovat: it's the humidity and wind that makes things worse - have felt hottest in Malaysia and Vietnam in only +25'sC and coldest in Scotland winters at only -8C because it's a damp cold and also windy.
Reply to this I am going to Mumbai in May. It is going to be around 38C which seems comfortable enough, but I have been warned that the humidity is going to make it very uncomfortable. But couldnt resist the cheap flights to there at that time of the year....
Reply to this I've been in minus 40 ish in Canada and plus 48 in Sudan.
Reply to this i have a photo of an outdoor thermometer in Alice Springs registering 50C. That was just too hot!!!
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