Your Extreme Temps

[bikerskier]

Coldest temp -70 with wind chill -150 at point barrow.
Hottest temp 125 in arizona

Same as Chief except about 20 miles NE of Deadhorse on a cat train out on the ice. I think it was in Feb of '86.

Hottest was about 120 in SE CA.

 

[TruWrecks]

Low: -28 in Colorado in 1992 or 1993.

High: 129F in the Gobi Desert in 1992.

Largest change in one day: 2-3AM @ 34F to 3-4PM @ 129F. Gobi Desert. Gotta love the desert.

Motorcycle related:

Low: 28F in March of 95 riding to the Dalles, OR from Portland. I blew out an oil filter seal on my Maxim 550 and got stuck in the Gorge for several hours. The oil soaked my jeans from the knees down. I had to push the bike back several miles to the nearest gas station. I got there just after 1AM in one piece.

High: 104F stuck in rush hour traffic on a Hayabusa. I had to shut it off every time I had to stop or it would overheat.

 

[Rogue]

Low: I won't count the working in a blast freezer at -58 because I could come out when I needed to so it would be 0 degrees camping.

Low on a bike, don't know but I would guess mid 20's in Wyoming at night.

High: 124 in a black pickup truck with no A/C going through Needles, CA in August. High on a bike, in Baker, CA I've seen the thermometer read 109 at 11:00 at night and 115 during the day riding through.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Low: I won't count the working in a blast freezer at -58 because I could come out when I needed to so it would be 0 degrees camping.Low on a bike, don't know but I would guess mid 20's in Wyoming at night.

High: 124 in a black pickup truck with no A/C going through Needles, CA in August. High on a bike, in Baker, CA I've seen the thermometer read 109 at 11:00 at night and 115 during the day riding through.

Now Rogue, if you're high on a bike, I'm not sure we can trust your readings now...

 

[Rogue]

Low: I won't count the working in a blast freezer at -58 because I could come out when I needed to so it would be 0 degrees camping.Low on a bike, don't know but I would guess mid 20's in Wyoming at night.

High: 124 in a black pickup truck with no A/C going through Needles, CA in August. High on a bike, in Baker, CA I've seen the thermometer read 109 at 11:00 at night and 115 during the day riding through.

Now Rogue, if you're high on a bike, I'm not sure we can trust your readings now...

Was, I don't do that shit anymore!

 

[kaitsdad]

Let me tell you about cold -

Cold is when I see the kitchen trash sitting inside the back door ....

And I tell the wife "Hey- I didn't hide the trash cans the last time I brought them back from the street"

Cold. Word. lasted for days.

:huh:

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

hot 124 in Dubai, UAE

cold -22 Arapahoe Basin, Colorado

 

[SMC]

:blink: Banff Alberta Canada, forty below zero, and Sinai Peninsula between Israel and Egypt 126F.

 

[FJRottie]

Coldest -36oC with windchill -47oC in North Bay, ON and Alert, Nunavut

Yup, me too....Alert, Nunavut that is. Been there a few times. Coldest I saw up there was -52 C (-61 F). :cold:

 

[wheatonFJR]

Alert, Nunavut...sounds like a popular place with two of you from our little board having been up there. Do they sell cruises to the place?

 

[bradd]

Coldest, Minnesota growing up, I think I was 15, it was -32 with a windchill of -85.

Hottest New Mexico, I had friends that lived in the mountains in the north, I flew in to Alburquerque in July and they picked me up at the airport in there Ford Ranger with no AC. It was 112F and from Alburquerque until Santa Fe it was pretty miserable, then we gained enough altitude it cooled off.

Biggest change on a bike, last September, I was riding in Colorado and went from 25F going over Hosier pass in the morning to 85 in the afternoon in Pueblo.