Sin City and Bismark heat
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In 05 Army buddies and I had a reunion in Vegas. July 26th thru July 31st. As I recall it was 114 degrees one of those days. A/C on trolleys did not work so we walked. Only way we could find relief from heat was to walk in shade of buildings across street. Breathing was difficult and in Phoenix they could only work in four hour shifts. I think they are calling for 117 degrees out there. Just can't imagine living out there.
In '89 on July 4th on our trip across North America my sweetheart Diane and i watched the fireworks on a bluff overlooking Bismark. I think it was 111 degrees. It gets pretty darn cold there in the winter too.
Wondered what's the hottest you guys/gals ever experienced outdoors? Working in a foundry does not count.😀 --------------------Ray
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A couple of years ago, 110 was the hottest ever in Oregon, thermometer said 117 in the sun. Waaay hot for the area.
Yep, we had 105 I think, which was an all time high on the Olympic Peninsula I'm thinking. The hottest I personally experienced was 112-117? In western Montana growing up.
120 degrees and 95 percent humidity in n Oman for 5 days working 12 hour days. It kinda sucked.
Brad Steele
August 15th deer season opener in the SC lowcountry is pretty brutal. Near 100 degrees and very high humidity in those swamps not to mention swarms of mosquitos,ticks,chiggers, venomous snakes and yellow jackets.As I got older and wiser I left August deer hunting to the younger and tougher.
125 degrees to maybe 130 . Hanging tobacco in an old fashioned stick barn in the summer .Too involved to explain here but if interested you can Google it .
I work in attics down the shore. Temps reach 140+ up there some days. You can only work an hour or two, before coming down to rest for 5 minutes. Our outdoor temps here reach about 100 during the summer, but the humidity is what gets you. The humidity here is worse than in Florida, or some other southern states.
Highest temp I've worked in was 106. I made a rule for myself after that day that when it hit 100 it was time to pack it in for the day.
Lowest temp ever was -45. Feeding cows is no fun at -45!
Just a afterthought: Right out of HS 1961, I worked in a concrete structures plant outside Richmond, Virginia. They made monster "I" beams and Double T's for stadiums, schools etc.
I was a cable cutter mostly and we welded the spiral around cables in a bed before concrete was poured. Those cables were stretched with a tremendous amount of pressure with a collar at other end in a cage surrounded by rebar for protection. If you burned a cable too much all hell broke loose. Quite a few college FB players worked there to get in shape for fall season. Once the cables were welded the concrete was poured in and was helped to cure with high temperature steam. It was all in the open and one day it was 105degrees and with the steam it was probably near 150degrees.
Also, on same day one of the fellas took front loader tire in van to be repaired. He came back and left van in hot sun with tire inside for a long time. I was cutting end cables from double t's and tire blew in van. Shrapnel every where in yard. That cheap white Ford Van looked like a white pumpkin. No glass left and as I recall all the doors were blown off.
A few days later I was up about two stories on double t's and grabbed a 4x4 block under top T and there was no weight on it. Went over backwards with ace/oxy hoses wrapped around me and landed on ground. My uncle was crane mech/foreman and came running over. He thought i was dead as I was turning blue. Somehow he shook the life back into me. I don't even think there was a OSHA then and I never complained for fear of being fired. I was in agony for over two weeks. At age 25 GP said compression fracture, too late to fix it now, it has healed.
I saw many people get hurt and decided after many episodes it was safer to join the Army and let the Russians shoot at me. An absolute unsafe hell hole. ---------------------Ray
I remember Dad's friend in Fluvanna County, Virginia was a tobacco farmer. That work took a heavy toll on his lungs and as a kid I think I remember he burned sulfur in a spit toon to breath and stay alive. Once it hailed at the end of season and he stood in the middle of his field and cursed the Lord. A whole years work gone in 10 -15 minutes. It was a hard, hard life.----------------------------Ray
I played golf in Tempe AZ once when it was 112...... I was a kid, I did not know any better !
Stacked many bales up in the top of the barn/mow/shed, when it was well over 90 outside, trying to keep up with the 90 bale stacker coming in every 20 minutes or so, probably close to 120 degrees. Luckily, on the hills to steep for the stacker, we didn't start hand tossing the bales until the temp got down to 85, or so degrees. Sure made it quite a bit nicer in the top of the barn after unloading the trailers. 2 strand bales were like a vacation back then. Us young guys, back in the day, never had the luxury of loading the elevator, only stacking it out to make it all fit...
I was in Sacramento in June one year checking on my horse and helping a friend a little bit.... 112 I kealed over in the driveway.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
i can't remember the high temp, but i do remember in summer of 2007 Missoula area had 13 days in July over 100. being in a bowl, the air got very stagnant. railroad fumes just hugged the ground, it was miserable. humidity was low and sweating was almost non existent, but one had to maintain a high water intake just the same.
I spent well over 30 years working in a Green House. They don't call them "HOT Houses" for nothing! 😁
The hottest outside temps I've ever encountered were when I disembarked from a plane in Tucson AZ back in late August 2011. Was there for a week and it hit 116 degrees nearly every day I was there!
The experience gave me a whole new perspective of appreciation to my home sweet home here in Michigan!
When my wife was a teacher/principal, we could only visit our married daughter in Phoenix in summer. It was always over 100, and one year it hit 118.
Here in northern Utah, we typically get about five days over 100. It hit 106 the other day. Down south in St George, it hit 113. (That's about 100 miles north of Vegas.)
We also typically get about five days below zero, so it all balances out, eh?
The next week looks like it will be close to the same....
Yea, but in Phoenix and Vegas it's a DRY heat.(so some liars say while setting in a AC room)
Yea, tell me about it, I've walked in hot shoes in that DRY HEAT.
I set for almost 3 hours in that area inside the airport terminal waiting for the the temp to cool just enough for that junky looking vibrating (seemed they forgot to balance the engine) plane to leave and then when the plane took off and got up in the clouds big lightning, hail, rain. I talked to the man and told him (prayed) if he would just help get me out of this situation I would be a good boy for a long time.
That was approx 10 years ago and when I start getting off track I remember the promise I made to him and apologize.
In monsoon season (which starts right about now) it is no longer a dry heat. Nevada and Arizona's rainy season. It's also when they get a dust storm event that the TV reporters always giggle at because it's called a haboob. They get a "dirty word" kick out of saying haboob.
For the Vets wearing battle dress uniforms & served time in SWA theater, certainly Sin City would offer some relief.
110 and 99% humidity in FL. And I think the coldest was probably about -20 for a week.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Well.......it's been a bit warm here, in our town about 20 miles south of the Red River.
Yesterday it reached 109 degrees.....and today was 110 degrees, but only 16% humidity.
Back in 1980......June 28th to be exact.......we reached our hottest temperature of 117 degrees. On that same day and not far away, Seymour, Texas reached 120 degrees.......Texas's all time high. I was bass fishing in my tube on a small stock tank/pond.......being fairly comfortable. The tough/hot part was getting into and out of the waders I had to use.
From that same summer I have some old rifle range targets that show temps of 111 degrees.
The wayback machine reminds me of a hot summer day in about 1965. I participated in unloading drilling mud chemicals (40 pound bags of powdered formaldehyde.......and yeah.....OSHA and EPA were not around) from an enclosed semi trailer in downtown Oklahoma City. Tough hot work for a 15 year old..........but I was too young to know any better.
Those were the days.........😎
62vid2042, I firmly understand the drilling mud . My job from 1973 till 1977 was drilling water wells in tidewater area of Virginia. Summer ther is brutal . We did both shallow and deep wells up to 1500 feet deep.