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I'm still getting used to Celsius and hadn't come across this temperature range. Had to check. It's 113°F.
I've never been anywhere that warm outside a sauna.
That's fair enough. It was only invented in 1742 so that's barely enough time to start getting used to it.
Moved away from the states about half a decade ago to the UK. Was excited to drop imperial units, but then I found out the English still measure body weight in rocks. That one took a hogshead of wind out of my sails.
You know that someplace has a problem with obesity when they start breaking out the geologic scales.
I moved to a tourist trap area with lots of lakes around and zero breeze. My car thermometer would regularly hit 110°F all last summer and this. I think that may be it's top out. But with the constant 99% humidity, I got a good thirty seconds of blindness every time I exit my car.
There was a day last year where it got up to like 130°F(54°C) in honk Kong or something like that. It was damn near 120°F(49°C) in the states that day iirc. Also apparently death valley California has the highest temp ever recorded at 134°F(57°C)
Living in Louisiana, these past few years the heat index has gotten around that and it is legitimately miserable to exist in. Considering our humidity, we were pushing wet bulb temperatures some days.