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48 degrees standing on the tarmac at Dubai airport waiting for a transfer
-30 in Chamonix snowboarding
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:37 am
Coldest is fairly tame, about -25°C in Colorado.

I've done -75°C in a test chamber. That's beyond cold, so cold it becomes a different sensation.
Hard to imagine -75°C.

I've found dry cold is v deceptive. I worked in the warehouse/freezer at a poultry plant which I guess was colder than the domestic fridge and the -30°C at Calgary was similar. You think, initially, a bit nippy but it sort of sinks in to you. Never thought about the temperature when actually skiing/snowboarding being a) dressed for it and b) active but standing around in the kit I got off the plane in got a bit weird after 30 mins+
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Skiing is always a roller coaster of temperatures IME. I remember being baking hot in the sun standing at the bottom of the lift in Colorado, stripped down to a T shirt, only for my drinks bottle to freeze solid on the lift ride up.
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Working above a row of Marshall boilers installing new lines to the orifice plates down to the dp cells. Middle of July, engineering shutdown. Hottest I've ever experienced. That said Death Valley was damn hot. The car over heated on the way.
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Count Steer wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:50 am

I've found dry cold is v deceptive.

High temperatures can feel totally different - high 40s and high humidity can be very uncomfortable but the same temperatures without the humidity i.e. dryer air can be very pleasant.
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Count Steer wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:50 am
Hard to imagine -75°C.
Same chamber does +70°C at 100% RH. You're practically scuba diving when you go in :D. You actually have to be quite careful with sending people in to check stuff, very easy to lose track of what you're up to and pass out.
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To be fair the snow in the indoor snow slope here is like that...only needs to be sorta minus 5. Same at real Ski resorts too.
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I've tried and failed to make snowballs in temperatures alot higher than -40 though.

T'was also 12,000ft up though which would effect the humidity somewhat :lol:
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Hottest +53C, Lower Zambezi valley between Zambia and Zimbabwe, on the river in an open boat fishing for the day. Coldest, -19C, worked in the North of Sweden for a few days, February. The sea was frozen ...
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Namibia - Debilitating heat on the Orange River in an inflatable canoe,with no shade. Saffer guide reckoned it was 130 in old money.

Finland - No idea how cold, but I felt my tears freezing on my eye lashes.
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Warmest was Portugal, out towards Cap St. Vincent, 40 odd degrees.

Coldest was Castlederg one winter, it was minus 15c but by some miracle, my ancient Peugeot started.
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There was that time I went on a mission on the Icarus II to restart our dying sun. That got pretty warm.

Then there was that time my plane crashed in the Andes and I had to eat my mates. That was pretty nippy.
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KungFooBob wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:22 pm There was that time I went on a mission on the Icarus II to restart our dying sun. That got pretty warm.
That was such a stupid name for a craft supposed to fly close to the sun.

They might have mentioned it, but I ain't seen it for ages. TBH I'm probably thinking of Event Horizon quite a bit and mixing the two up.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:46 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:22 pm There was that time I went on a mission on the Icarus II to restart our dying sun. That got pretty warm.
That was such a stupid name for a craft supposed to fly close to the sun.

They might have mentioned it, but I ain't seen it for ages. TBH I'm probably thinking of Event Horizon quite a bit and mixing the two up.
Should've called it Prometheus. :thumbup:
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KungFooBob wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:22 pm There was that time I went on a mission on the Icarus II to restart our dying sun. That got pretty warm.
Should've gone at night :thumbup:
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Was on that big wall in China . -14c. My nose wouldn’t stop running

Hottest was in southern China working for a Spanish co manufacturing all the stuff that goes in a bathroom

Yorick will know the company . It begins with the letter R and ends in the letter A

The top of a tunnel kiln is around 75 c. When a thermocouple fails and needs replacing its warm😜
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Hottest was 49C at Richard's Bay in South Africa 1993, 100% humidity as well.
Coldest was -16C in Debrecen Hungary in 1998. Siberian winds cut through you like knives.
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Coldest I can testify to is 14F

In Leeds the big Yorkshire Post building tower constantly shows time and temp.

Riding to work one morning it was showing 14f. That's -10c

Hands were cold that morning :(
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It used to be cold in Bejam's freezer room in Woolwich when I worked there evenings and weekends as a spotty 15 year old.

To stay warm I had to don a thick coat, gloves and boots and sit round the corner where nobody could see me and eat the posh ice creams and choc ices then hide the empty wrappers behind the racking...
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There are posh choc ices?