re: Hottest and coldest place you’ve been to

Ali Al Saleem AB, Kuwait. one day in the summer of 2011 the wind shifted and the normally dry head became as humid as MS. The coldest is in Limestone, ME.

The Middle East for both

Don’t know about hottest, but for coldest: I grew up in Minnesota. Every winter was crazy cold. The windchill hit -50s several times. When waiting for the bus kids would sometimes take their caps off, let their hair freeze, and snap of chunks of hair for fun

Coldest anchorage alaska
Hottest Kuwait

I will add I left anchorage at midnight at -20 degrees and the next night was sitting on a pier in Charleston SC at about 40 degrees and was colder than anchorage. Between the humidity and wind I was miserable.

Read a biography of a WW2 soldier that fought in North Africa and Europe. He said the hottest and coldest place he had ever been were both at Ft. Polk. Its just different with humidity.

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Well, Death Valley and Prospect Creek (Alaska) hold the records for the hottest and coldest temperatures recorded in the USA. I have been to both.

Death Valley in July during a modest 108 degree day. PC (or really the Dalton Highway) in the summer when temperatures were comfortable.

The hottest I have experienced in the moment was 116 in Delhi, India. Not too sure about coldest. Single digits for sure but nothing subzero that I can recall. Unless you’re chasing the aurora - which I was lucky enough to see quite well in May in Minnesota a couple of years ago during a solar storm - I don’t see much appealing about being at high latitude in winter. Not just because of the weather but lack of daylight hours. Just not my thing.

Hottest was Hyderabad, India in spring. Stayed between 105 and 110 during the day, but very dry.

Coldest probably Jersey City, NJ right on the Hudson in January 2006. Highs during the day were mid-20s, but there was a constant 40 mph wind off the river.

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2021 Grand Canyon hike in June. 120 in shade.

1979 business trip in Chicago. -21

Below 50° for me is uncomfortable.

-25 in Ely, Minnesota

Oddly enough 108 in Bar Harbor, Maine