130F hot enough for ya?

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Avispa said:
can't be any hotter than the MCAS Yuma flightline in the summer
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If you haven't been to Yuma recently you would be blown away. It's a big city nowadays.



mbaird said:
I am fine between -30 and 105.... anything outside that range is just miserable !
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I'm fine from 55-85. Anything outside of that is miserable. With my job we get the extremes. Sometimes you're camping on a mountain top at 10,000 ft freezing your balls off and others you're hiking up canyon walls in triple digits.
I'm a wildland firefighter so more routinely in hot temps + fire. It's been so hot that our fire helicopters couldn't fly. No lift. Been on fires that have singed my mustache hairs. That's hot!
 
go-fish said:
If you haven't been to Yuma recently you would be blown away. It's a big city nowadays.





I'm fine from 55-85. Anything outside of that is miserable. With my job we get the extremes. Sometimes you're camping on a mountain top at 10,000 ft freezing your balls off and others you're hiking up canyon walls in triple digits.
I'm a wildland firefighter so more routinely in hot temps + fire. It's been so hot that our fire helicopters couldn't fly. No lift. Been on fires that have singed my mustache hairs. That's hot!
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My son is a hotshot on the Idaho City crew. I dont know how he deals with the heat. When he was young he couldnt stand over 100 and was much happier skiing Alta at -10 .
But he seems to enjoy firefighting. This is his 3rd season. But that will end mext year when he graduates with a chemical engineering degree.
 
114 here today, but they're calling for a cooldown to 96 by Wednesday, I think.
 
It is curious that after a few days of 110+, a few days in the mid 90s is a great relief!

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mbaird said:
The wife is from Topeka and lived in Tulsa for a while. When she told me what the climate was like I thought "That's worse than MN !" Hot and humid summers and cold rainy winters.... I would rather have -20 and snow than 33* and drizzly or ice storms.
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I worked outside in Calif. when it was 118 , not as bad as 99 degrees with 98% humidity here , thanks GOD we dont have that , much tho .
The monsoon season has been around here for about 1 1/2 or 2 months now .
 
bob mCcarty said:
I worked outside in Calif. when it was 118 , not as bad as 99 degrees with 98% humidity here , thanks GOD we dont have that , much tho .
The monsoon season has been around here for about 1 1/2 or 2 months now .
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I spent about three weeks in Louisiana the summer I was 13. I have no idea how they survive...
 
Two vacations I made to the tropics of Mexico. Get hot, jump in the pool. Cool off, get out of the pool. 15 minutes later, you're dried from the pool. 15 minutes after that, you're wet again from the perspiration/humidity :BangHead: :lol:. Life in the Mojave Desert, 115 outside, "Let's go play baseball!" :lol:
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
Rather it be hot than freezing, water n shade.
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I dunno man, I grew up in MN. In a pinch you can build a shelter out of snow to sleep in and it will keep you alive. You can only stand so much heat and shade will only do so much.

Either way, no thanks.
 
diymirage said:
hence the term "all time RECORD"
it was the highest recorded temp

duh

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It says "record". Not "recorded". There is a difference. Anyways, we don't know what is normal or what is abnormal. Maybe nobody is really supposed to live in that part of the country, and we are just finding this out?
 
As an industrial electrician in my mid 50's, I've worked in a lot of really cold, and a lot of really hot. The thing is, the arthritis in my knuckles never causes problems in the heat. And my frostbitten toes have never complained when its hot.
I'll take the heat. If it gets too hot, I'll take a break or go home.
 
Scody21 said:
I remember it being 111 in placerville in about 98 or 99. Over 100 we very common in the summers growing up there. Lived in Sac about 10 years ago and that was the worst. About 4 years ago it was 115 in Fairfield, with the bay humidity, that sucked...

Was 106 on the SW Washington coast 2 weeks ago. The darn weather app for the area tops out at 86, was way too hot...
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I hear ya! Hold the Heat please !!!
I've got a brother who moved to northern Idaho... one of the reasons was to escape the valley heat, he says it was over the century mark up there too! lol
 
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