I guess it's all what you get used to. I don't really like dry OR humid heat, but I can handle the dry heat better. I remember the first time I got off a plane in Hawaii, it was so humid for me, it felt like I was trying to breathe underwater!
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Wow, you've really experienced both ends of the spectrum!
Hottest - Holiday in East Africa , it was hottest in land where it was like being baked in a dust bowl but felt worse over on the coast in Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar because it was right before monsoon and the humidity was evil. No air con, in fact little or no electricity anywhere.
Coldest - Flat I lived in as a student in Edinburgh. It was a really cold winter, regularly minus 0 celcius for weeks on end, icy but only occasional snow. The flat only had a 2 bar electric heater in one room. We had sheets of ice on the insides of the windows for several weeks and when friends of mine came up for a long weekend one of them (who had disabilities and couldn't move much to keep warm) left with a bit of frost bite in her fingers!
I'm kind of glad I wasn't a student in Alaska or somewhere!
Warmest -- Phoenix, AZ -- a balmy 114 F one fine July day when I was a kid on a driving vacation with my family in early 70's. Dad was so proud of the deal he'd made on his brand new Ford Fairlane -- "without all those unecessary extras," You know-- like AIR CONDITIONING! Oh, the smells on that trip!
Coldest-- Negative 30 F in Grand Forks, ND in Jan. of 2009 taking my son on an official college visit to University of North Dakota. Wonderful school and great athletic facilities, but DS couldn't get past that kind of cold, and selected another university.
Coldest-- Negative 30 F in Grand Forks, ND in Jan. of 2009 taking my son on an official college visit to University of North Dakota. Wonderful school and great athletic facilities, but DS couldn't get past that kind of cold, and selected another university.
Ooooh, sounds a bit like part of the drive we had on the holiday I mentioned, and without air con in the car I swear I (and everyone else) would have expired! The car we were in at that point was the only aircon on the whole trip. I feel your pain, scarred for life.... bet your dad was NOT popular for a while after that.
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warmest-- Florida
coldest - Chicago
coldest - Chicago
Warmest - Probably a toss up between Florida and Arizona
Coldest - Erie, PA / Buffalo, NY
Coldest - Erie, PA / Buffalo, NY
Right here in SE Saskatcbewan - have seen summer days with highs of 110°F and the coldest I have seen was -55°F although we have had wind chill values close to 70 below
Warmest - probably Vegas. We were there in the mid-80s and I really didn't like it very much. Dry heat, wet heat....doesn't matter, hot is hot. Overall, I'd much rather be too warm than too cold. I hate being cold.
Coldest - for me, probably right here during a really cold winter. I think it was back during the mid-90s, we had a really nasty cold snap in mid-January. The night time temp went down into the -20s degrees F (wind chill was unreal) and businesses had to shut down, simply to conserve energy. I was working at the paper plant and I remember that we had to shut the plant down (or else the electric company would simply shut us down) and go home. I was on second shift and left work right around 7:00 or so. It was almost surreal driving home that night; as I drove through town, even signs were shut off. It was the darkest I've ever seen in town. (I smoked back then, too, and I remember us smokers lining up outside the plant building, puffing away quickly.....it was really, really cold but we needed our nicotine fix.)
Coldest - for me, probably right here during a really cold winter. I think it was back during the mid-90s, we had a really nasty cold snap in mid-January. The night time temp went down into the -20s degrees F (wind chill was unreal) and businesses had to shut down, simply to conserve energy. I was working at the paper plant and I remember that we had to shut the plant down (or else the electric company would simply shut us down) and go home. I was on second shift and left work right around 7:00 or so. It was almost surreal driving home that night; as I drove through town, even signs were shut off. It was the darkest I've ever seen in town. (I smoked back then, too, and I remember us smokers lining up outside the plant building, puffing away quickly.....it was really, really cold but we needed our nicotine fix.)
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Coldest - Northern Maine in January during a real cold spell.
Warmest - Hmmmm. The furthest south I've been is Florida, but it was in April so the temperatures were pleasant. I think I'll have to go with right here during a summer heat wave.
Warmest - Hmmmm. The furthest south I've been is Florida, but it was in April so the temperatures were pleasant. I think I'll have to go with right here during a summer heat wave.
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Hmmm, I'm not really sure, but I'm going to say SE Pennsylvania. To quote my German husband when asked how he liked living there, "I've never been so hot, or so cold, in my life."
I have travelled a lot and although in general I would rather be too hot than too cold, the most uncomfortable heat I ever experienced was when I lived in Bosnia, where it regularly hit 42 C in summer. It got down to -22Celsius in winter with 3 metres of snow, and although that was inconvenient, at least you could wrap up warm - not like summer when you could not ever get cool. I did not like Bahrein for heat though,it was as hot as Las Vegas (and I have been there in August) but so humid that the second I left the hotel my clothes were wet through. I lived in Southern California for two years, and I did like the climate on the whole, though I missed the seasons! I am genetically a northern European and made for temperate climates, which is one reason I have chosen to live in northern France, where we have proper seasons, pleasant (22-30C) in summer and only rarely below freezing in winter.
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I was born in Alaska and it got pretty cold there though it never bothered me, the coldest place I've ever been though was the Yukon in Canada it got down to -45 and our air mattress shattered when it fell out of the truck.
Warmest was either Louisville, Kentucky was so humid and hot all summer when i lived there. . . Also Florida which I've only been to twice for vacation. I'm not a big fan of anything above 70 preferably 65 lol!
Warmest was either Louisville, Kentucky was so humid and hot all summer when i lived there. . . Also Florida which I've only been to twice for vacation. I'm not a big fan of anything above 70 preferably 65 lol!
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It's been 42C (107F)here many times... but with air-con I don't notice so much.
It's interesting the humidity issue.. so many people find it difficult, including me. Dry heat is so much easier to take, I reckon.
It's interesting the humidity issue.. so many people find it difficult, including me. Dry heat is so much easier to take, I reckon.
Tunisia was sweltering hot. I live in Pennsylvania and I remember when I was little it was - 4 degrees one day.
I'd have to say here for both. It gets ridiculously hot and humid in the summer. I believe it got up to 112 or 114 somewhere in the state but I think the hottest it's been here specifically is 108 or 110. And it gets ridiculously cold in the winter. -30 is not very uncommon.
I like the climate in San Diego, the problem is that everyone else does too. I don't want to live in a big city. I don't like the climate in Florida; all that humidity all the time. Even though we went in August and it was actually cooler/less humid there than here :tongue2:, but I wouldn't want to deal with it all year. I prefer a dry heat. I wouldn't want to live somewhere that wasn't sunny most of the time (like Oregon)---at least here it's almost always sunny even if the sun doesn't work half the year :lol3:.
I like the climate in San Diego, the problem is that everyone else does too
. I don't want to live in a big city. I don't like the climate in Florida; all that humidity all the time. Even though we went in August and it was actually cooler/less humid there than here :tongue2:, but I wouldn't want to deal with it all year. I prefer a dry heat. I wouldn't want to live somewhere that wasn't sunny most of the time (like Oregon)---at least here it's almost always sunny even if the sun doesn't work half the year :lol3:.
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Hottest was definitely San Angelo, Texas, in August. I lived there several years ago. Coldest was probably a trip to Maine during Christmas week with my dad when I was a kid. It was snowing and it was really cold. That's all I remember!
