STORM2K

I think for my area
the highest temp has been 100 F, with a heat index
much hotter (I'll have to dig up the thread, I think the
heat index may have been 110+)
Coldest about 29 F.

Include temperature, heat index, wind chill, or anything
EXTREME.

I think we hit 107F here once a few years ago. We also hold a share of the state record for highest heat index at 125F. As for cold, I've felt -25F air temp, but the record is -41F in Minneapolis (which is 50 miles north). We've had wind chills get to -50 in this part of the state as well.

During my time in north Houston (August 2005 through the present day), the coldest temperature I have experienced at my location was 22.8F, and the warmest temperature was near 103F.

As for my all-time extremes though, they would be somewhere between -2F and 0F as my coldest (near Lake Tahoe) and 115-118F as my warmest (In Phoenix, AZ).

for Amarillo, TX...108 and -16

117°F and -23°F -- Kansas City


(47°C and -31°C)

for me here since I have lived here.
28-101F.

I think September 2000, when I moved to Houston, the very day I was carrying furniture from a rental truck up three flights of stairs, it was 108ºF, the warmest day ever in HOU history. IIRC.



I recall a 117ºF ( 47ºC ) day in Monahans, TX, out West of Odessa. June of 1994, I think. A dry thunderstorm started a grass fire that weekend that burned to the edge of the Midland-Odessa airport. Summer job for a French owned oil field service company, working in NOMEX coveralls, in un-air conditioned trucks (because Schlumberger were cheap bastards), pumping acid into Exxon wells, with sun reflecting back from the sand dunes. I guess it rained enough near Odessa for dried out grass to burn. Monahans was about an hour further West on I-20, not far from Pyote, TX, or about 30 miles due South of Jal, New Mexico.



Camel riding tours in Monahans sand dunes.




I think it got down to 2ºF in December 1989 when I was in Austin. Truly, as the old saying goes, there is nothing between Texas and the North Pole but barbed wire fences.

Well I did do digging through the FL threads:
Unofficial:
Highest Temperature: 105 F
Highest Heat Index: 125 F
Coldest Temperature: 29 F
Coldest Wind Chill: Low 20s.

For the last 10 years.

Official:
High: 100, Heat Index 113 (TPA Vandenberg Airport)
Coldest: 27 F, TPA International
Wind Chill: 18-20 F on that 27F temp day jan 24, 2003

Hottest I have ever experienced was 112ºF here in Houston on Labor Day 2000(official was 109ºF). The highest heat index(official)that I remember here was 135º. That was freaking brutal!! They were warning everyone to stay inside air conditioned areas and opened quite a few heat relief centers . The coldest I have experienced here was 7º. The lowest ever here was 5º.

I remember that event quite well. It felt like a blast furnace on our deck. 108F in League City was amazing.

vbhoutex wrote:Hottest I have ever experienced was 112ºF here in Houston on Labor Day 2000(official was 109ºF). The highest heat index(official)that I remember here was 135º. That was freaking brutal!! They were warning everyone to stay inside air conditioned areas and opened quite a few heat relief centers . The coldest I have experienced here was 7º. The lowest ever here was 5º.

135 that is insane!!
I can't even fathom that. I guess it must be like standing very close to a camp fire when it
is a cold night and everyone is gathered around, except you stand too close and feel
a furnace!

-43 in Feb 96, don't remember what the wind chill was, not that is really matters. Hottest was in the low 100's. Don't recall actual temps, but in 1987, July or August I think and the late 1970's and a few years ago.

Officially our record low is -56F and our record high is 100F. However, I've only lived here since October 2004. In that time period, the coldest we've experienced at our house was -42 in January 2007 (without windchill). It has hit 98 twice in July 2006 and three times in July 2005.

If we're talking area, just west of us is Maybell which has wider extremes in temperature. Their record low is -61 set in 1985 and the record high is 102 set in 1989.

Outside the area where I currently live, I have experienced windchills of -70F to -80F and as high as 111F.

Officially, 0-108.

On my weather station, I've seen 5-107.

A few years ago, with temps approaching 100, a rain shower broke out that lasted about 30 seconds. The sun remained out the whole time. A few minutes after, the air was very difficult to breathe and I began to feel ill after only half a minute outside. My weather station reported a heat index of 152. Everything was perfectly dry a few minutes later and the heat index was down to 102 or so.

I figured the station was being compromised by the conditions somehow, but it was by far the most miserable weather conditions I've ever felt, and I've experienced an official heat index of 119. I have heard, though, of heat indexes above 175.

A buddy of mine who runs a construction company and was building a house on the next block from me that day said that just after the shower, he had to halt his entire crew for half an hour after they started to feel sick.

That is pretty much how it was when we had that insane 135º HI. You almost couldn't breath and just felt totally miserable if you went out in it for even a short time. And yes it was like a furnace. It felt like a blow torch to the face as you walked out of AC into it.

in my time living in El Campo southwest of houston, the lowest was 7 above in dec. 1989, highest was sept. 2000, 113 degrees, at that time was only 35 miles north of the matagorda bay area.

Here in SE England got upto 99F, locations nearby have reached 100F in that 2003 Europe heatwave that claimed many lives in France, heat index here that day reached 107F...that was really extreme for this locaton.

in fort lauderdale, highest recorded temp is 99 and lowest is 28 i believe...don't be fooled though...we get some very extreme heat indexes on a regular basis during the summer...temps in the 90s and dewpoints in the 70s to even 80 degrees can make it feel 110+ quite often

Highest on record: 106
Lowest on record: -13

Highest I've measured: 104
Lowest I've measured: 10

Here just north of Houston, the lowest I have seen is 27F and the highest is 105F. That's for the last 3 years.

The warmest I have seen is 114F in Lubbock and the coldest I have seen is -1F in DFW/Plano.

The most snow I have seen is 27" in the NYC Blizzard of 2006, but the 16" I had in Birmingham in 1993 was much worse (impact-wise).