where is the hottest place you have ever been?
 

me and j4cko and the lads went to faliraki in the early nineties, i reckon it was over 30'c most days, at the time it was unbearable we had to drink loads of fluids:thumb:

where is the hottest place you have ever been?

Death Valley, averaged about 50 degrees C (obviously all temperature is measured in shade, so you can add 10 or so to that in the sun)

Seeing as its the hottest place on the planet, i think visitors to that particulur part of the world win :D

Death Valley was pretty warm!

Les :)

Malta for 1 week, temp was well over 40degrees everyday. Even walking around in the evening with a shirt on I was sweating after 1 minute of walking. Completely unbearable and spent the majority of the hols indoors

I must have come second, went to Oman in June, hovers round 47 ish during day, not dropping under 30 during the night

Le Mans during a heat wave a few years back definitely. We were in tents and had to be outside at 8am as they were unbearable, going to bed at 4am and up at 8 with a stocking hangover every day led to alot of morning booze drinking ;)

It was so hot the number plates were falling off the Porsches as they are stuck on with glue lol and my digital temp readouts for the engine charge always read -- (max 70 I think).

Dubai in the summer was hot. About 40 - 45C. The sea is like stepping into a warm bath!!

mexico! nearly killed me!

A sauna.

Awaits Paul Habgood :)

Over 30C jacko's mate? you can get that in UK! It was over 40 in Lisbon for some days a couple of years ago, that was quite unpleasant.


How about coldest? I've been in Moscow when I went to sleep with it at -10 outside and woke up with the thermometer showing -35c, that was a bit of a shock - Ulaanbaatar similar. And I expect the top of the Canadian Rockies in January with the wind blowing wasn't too comfy either - but unlike the others I was prepared for it!

Goa this year in March, and also just last month

March peaked at 42 degrees one day :eek: Got a seriously good tan :D

Cuba was bloody hot when i was there a few years ago!

It was 30C in Kos in October

The hills above Messina on Sicilly summer 06 :eek: Warm scirocco winds blowing at night meant the temp never really fell so by midday it was 42 where they filmed key scenes from the Godfather :eek:
The minute you stepped outside you could feel your skin burning :eek:

You couldnt get near the village fountain for all the hornets who had decided it was THEIR watering hole!! :eek:

The ovens at a place i worked once - you had to wheel teh tray-racks in to them and you could walk right thro .


Other than that south of France in august when i was 16 on top of a mountain near le muy :)

Hello

I have worked in Saudi Arabia and that was above 45c. I wasn't happy. My ideal weather is around 5c and I still wear a T-Shirt!

Steve

wow that is hot

Riyadh in august, well a rather large airbase outside Riyadh. Temp hovering high 40's low 50's (celsius), and white concrete makes the beat back off it amazing.

Main concern was keeping tender flesh of any metal object, whether that was airframes, car panels or that spanner you forgot and left in the sun. :freak3:

One of my mates emailed home how hot was and was told "your auntie jean has been to Cyprus in July and it was only in the 30's so there is no way it's that hot where you are". Ok we bowed to the knowledge of auntie jean and stopped monking about the heat

The Sun......christ it was hot :(

Dallas in August .... still 90F at midnight , so much concrete all the heat is retained..

42 in Dharan, 40 in Nicosia this summer.

-43 in Ulan Ude, -47 with windchill in South Georgia...

SB

Same here. Don't know what temp it was, but the heat and the humidity combined with a lack of any moving air meant it was stifling. This was while at Chichen Itza.

[QUOTE=Brendan Hughes;7461489]Awaits Paul Habgood :)

Cheeky fecker and not wishing to dissappoint - Did i ever mention that i spent a few months in Dubai;) it was in the late 30's at night
Dubai - got to 52/53 degrees during the middle of the day in the summer

30 degrees, it was that in winter, was sunbathing in that balmy temp the week before christmas, coming back to the uk and -2 was a bit of a shock!:)

42 degrees in Alice Springs in Jan 2000.
Even the Aborigines were keeling over in the heat and couldn't work.
Had to go swimming in my shoes as you couldn't walk to the pool without melting the skin off the bottom of your feet. Mental
But lovely all the same. :D

One year in Florida it reached 100F, was at Universal Studios one day and all we could do was hide in the shade. Thats the hottest place i remember.

Stepping off the plane at Margarita Airport onto the tarmac runway was the worst heat ever though. Felt like someone blowing a hairdryer in my face.

Red sea, near the Alexandria Dam remember it being too hot to wear a feckin T shirt! :smug:

+47 in sharm el sheikh in july this year, -40 loads of times in the forests around Rovaniemi, Finland (lowest i've ever seen was -45 on the thermometer, but not sure how accurate that was).

Driving is really interesting when it's (really) cold. The packed snow / ice on the roads is so cold that it's not that slippery any more, and sometimes I've had problems with the clutch freezing so that it has to be lifted up with the foot (every gear change, which becomes a bit annoying after the first 100m).

I find breathing becomes rather difficult, as the air is so dry and cold that every breath hurts. Interestingly, it's entirely possible to go out and have a pee in a snow drift in your underpants for a minute or two without actually freezing (unless it's windy so you get snow blown on you)

Edit: I just had this flashback of my uncle jacking his car up in winter and lighting a small fire under the engine to get it started... it was some old audi 80 in the mid 80's.

Cyprus - 42 degrees one afternoon and we were stuck out in the open with no shade, no drinks etc :(

Had to shelter in some public toilets in the end until the "hotness" had passed, but got very burnt in the hour up to finding the bogs. :D

In a few countries in the Middle East (like Bahrain or Qatar) 52C is allegedly the legal limit at which level government employees are supposed to be sent home (as if it's any cooler at home ?!).

As a result, there is a degree of cynicism about the ensuing max temps declared each day in the summer - as shown by the local DJ going " Ok folks, so guess how hot it's going to be again today? Yep, that's right 52 again. Strange that" ;)

Whatever it was, it's unbearable as it's not only incredibly hot, but very humid too given the proximity of the Gulf - something that always surprises first time visitors. Survival depends on air con - you nip out and get yor car running with the aircon on and go back in the office until the car is cool enough to get in.
Similar temps experienced in Ethiopia, Chad, Sudan, etc, but didn't have thermometers out there .
Not nice seeing as my preferred upper operating range is 26-28C - after that I stop enjoying it ...

Dubai in the peak of the summer..... rather hot, but very nice all the same.

Hilarious seeing the outside of the windows in places misting up with condensation. Shop keepers and hotels would periodically squeegying them lol