Hottest and coldest temperatures you experienced

[__HRB__]

Originally Posted by retina

I can't see why the second can't be redefined to be 1/100000th of a day.

We should redefine something to make it easier for you to do arithmetic using your fingers and thumbs? Tsk, tsk.

How about we change it to a 2^-16th of a day? Or better, use something that can me measured more accurately than the time it takes for one full rotation of the earth, e.g. the duration of 2^33 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

Once we know h and G to high precisions, we can redefine the second again to be 2^149*Plank Time and call it a day.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by __HRB__

Once we know h and G to high precisions, we can redefine the second again to be 2^149*Plank Time and call it a day.

Ay, there's the rub.

Paul

[lorgix]

If saunas count (no ovens, I'm thinking whole body..) my high-temp is probably ~>85ºC. Low: probably ~-35ºC.

Translates to ~-30ºF-185ºF - a range of about 220ºF

If anyone is confused; F=1.8C+32 -> C=(F-32)/1.8

[MooMoo2]

Originally Posted by petrw1

Thanks to the good old extreme temp in the Prairies in Canada, I have personally been outside at home in temps ranging from -45 to +38 Celcius; not in the same day, mind you

Two days ago, the outside temperature was 28F (-2 C). It was 112F (44 C) less than two months before that. That's what happens when you live in an area that used to be a desert

[xilman]

Originally Posted by MooMoo2

Two days ago, the outside temperature was 28F (-2 C). It was 112F (44 C) less than two months before that. That's what happens when you live in an area that used to be a desert

-1 here (Cambridge UK) at the moment, went down to -4 overnight. Nothing Too unusual about that at this time of year but the first serious frost, by which I mean an air temperature below zero as opposed to areas exposed to a clear sky going below freezing, was less than a week ago. Now that is unusual --- it's not uncommon for it to happen at the end of September.

We also had our first dusting of snow overnight (some of the drifts were several millmetres deep!) --- unusual around here in November.

Around here used to be a swamp. Not sure that has much to do with the minimum and maximum temperatures though.


Paul

[davieddy]

Hmm. Caps lock key was it? I suspected the sm88 key

David

[Mr. P-1]

Hottest: No idea. Nothing special.

Coldest: -40, Leningrad, January 1987. When the wind blows, it's like being punched in the face with a steel fist.

[Oddball]

It was 41 degrees F (5 C) last night, and there was a ~16 year old girl walking to the mall who was wearing a sleeveless shirt and shorts. Holy cow...

I've gone topless at 50 degrees (10C) before, but that's only because it was sunny outside and I was playing soccer (the other team was playing with shirts on). The coldest I've been outside in shorts was during a two mile run when it was 27 degrees (-3 C) outside. The windchill made it feel like it was in the low teens, and I was wearing a long sleeve shirt and a jacket at that time.