Hot stuff baby or cold as ice - post your temperature pics

[Popsicle]

So how high or low has it been for you? 

30 °C is my hottest so far this year, recorded this afternoon in North Wales.

Summer '22 is my highest reading, 42.5 °C, July in Essex.

The lowest I can show in the van was winter 2022, a pathetic -7 °C on the A9 through the Cairngorms in January.

As some of you live in more extreme climates, I'm sure these efforts can be beat.

So how high or low can you show?

[Dyslexic Viking]

For obvious reasons, I stayed indoors. Hope it still counts.

 

But the car probably looked like this then if that helps.

I had -34 but don't have a picture of it.

[Popsicle]

2 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

For obvious reasons, I stayed indoors. Hope it still counts.

 

But the car probably looked like this then if that helps.

I had -34 but don't have a picture of it.

I had you in mind for the coldest reading mate, that low will take some beating.

[MrGTI6]

The hottest I've recorded was in my 306 GTI 6, also in the summer of 2022. Actual temperature was only* 40°C. I recall we were only 0.1°C behind Heathrow which set the UK record on the same day.

[myglaren]

Coldest, no picture, was -38°C in southern Sweden (Borås) in the early seventies.  Hottest was in the same location six months later, +38°C.

But the very hottest was last year in my garden, +52°C*.  It was cheating though as the thermometer is in direct sunlight and very sheltered.  Last year I had 32°C in late February and was painting the fence.

Snowed the next day, 4°C and no more fence painting for a month.

*there is a photo buried in the archives somewhere.

[IronStar]

No photo, but the highest I've seen sustained on the dash without car sitting parked in direct sunlight was 46C last year, on the motorway between Belgrade and Novi Sad. Aircon noped out after 15 minutes of that and started blowing mildly cold air as opposed to the usual arctic blizzard coming out of it. I honestly think that heat/sun sensor array was detecting an out-of-bounds value and decided to play it safe, as it started working properly after I found some shade. 

EDIT: Have a 42 at 5PM instead

[AnnoyingPentium]

Yesterday... I can't find the 38°C one from summer 2022 to hand.

[RayMK]

This was the day after my hottest encounter in 1974.  No temperature measurement but parts of the alloy engine had melted, so circa  500degC.  

[Dyslexic Viking]

39 minutes ago, RayMK said:

This was the day after my hottest encounter in 1974.  No temperature measurement but parts of the alloy engine had melted, so circa  500degC.  

Can I ask what car that was?

And do you know the cause of the fire?

[RayMK]

31 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can I ask what car that was?

And do you know the cause of the fire?

1967 Reliant 3-25.  Most likely cause was the metal fuel pipe connector popping out of  the Zenith carb.  As manufactured, the connector was pressed into the alloy carb. A  few years of vibration plus maintenance (disconnection/connection of the pipe to the carb) could loosen the press fit.  Failure sequence on the way to work was: 2 sec of very strong petrol smell, slowed down to pull over and investigate, before I'd stopped there was a big flash which blew the ashtray out of its aperture on the engine cowling inside the car, followed immediately by strong fire. Wife and I bailed out.  Traffic stopped.  An ambulance which was in the queue radioed the nearby fire station who arrived 5 minutes later in time to extinguish the fire before it consumed the boot and my toolkit.  During the burning phase, the lights and wipers came on and the starter began to operate.  3rd party fire and theft insurance paid out quite swiftly, settling the hire purchase, leaving enough for man maths to show that buying a brand new 2cv6 was the answer.  Passed my car test, took delivery of the Citroen and lived happily ever after, swearing to never buy another Reliant.  Forgot* and bought a project 1961 Reliant in 1992 which took until 2005 to return to the road (still got it, on the road). Bought another (Rialto) in 2007 which I kept for a couple  of years before selling. Some people never learn 🤣.   

[DVee8]

No photos, but 32°  heading to Rothbury.

I have never been so cold in 32°

A boot/car full of flowers for tomorrow's wedding. A/C on full.

[captain_70s]

I have passed away. Dead of hot. Farewell. 

[gm]

pretty hot here today 

so obviously i went for a run

took a bottle of water with me but had to stop in at me mams house to refill it after 2 miles !

 

[goosey]

34 near Marbella Spain* 

*im not that keen on Marbella 

[Six-cylinder]

North Buckinghamshire 28.8˚ C. 

Indoors 24.4˚ C

[beko1987]

Hit this last night out the front (sensor is behind the wooden fascia board but in full unwavering sun!

Bit cooler today, got the curtains closed so the house isn't too hot

Went shopping yesterday lunchtime and the car said 29.9. Luckily where I park is in the shade more than the sun so it doesn't cook disgustingly so... Did after 45 minutes in tesco car park though 😂 really tempted to flip the coin on a cheap aircon regas now before the mot rather than wait and see if it passes... Can't get it tested until next month at the earliest anyway...

[Popsicle]

Had to pop over to Kettering this afternoon in the couriering Caddy, new highest reading for me this year, I'm so glad the aircon works. 

[beko1987]

it's been hotter today! I'm in the office tomorrow which will mean ice cold air con there, but not in the car 😂 However I found out on Saturday that the qq body is designed in a way that with all 4 windows right down it doesn't buffet about too much, so that's how I'll drive home 👌 Probably works as well on the m40 as it did at 44mph all the way home Saturday...

However being in aircon all day gave me a horrible cold 2 weeks ago... So I'm not looking forward to it

[Markeh]

Highest this year so far was 32 today in the car. I think I've seen 35-36 before. Did once see 43c on a dolmus in Turkiye. I was in the office on that stupidly hot day in 2022 and after bussing it in decided I'd treat myself to some air con and get a cab home. So of course the Uber Prius that showed up had no working AC...

Coldest I think was around the -7 mark. My Megane used to think -0 was a legitimate temperature.

[155V6]

Tunbridge Wells

[bunglebus]

[Volksy]

This was by the Salton Sea in Southern California back in mid May.
The truck had been sat in the shade all day.

[Jazoli]

Rotterdam yesterday 

 

That’s quite warm for The Netherlands, it was showing 37 degrees after coming back to the car being sat in the sun all day, bur as we all know that’s not the true temperature.

[PhilA]

This is accurate. Today's warm.

[wuvvum]

On 20/06/2025 at 08:59, myglaren said:

Last year I had 32°C in late February

¿¿¿Qué???

[bigstraight6]

Hot Hot!

[Popsicle]

Set a new PB on Tuesday.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I don't understand how one manage to function in such temperatures. Over 25 and I'm dying. It's been up to 27 in the shade here the last few days and it's been awful.

[lisbon_road]

54 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I don't understand how one manage to function in such temperatures. Over 25 and I'm dying. It's been up to 27 in the shade here the last few days and it's been awful.

All about what you are used to. I lived in one of the hottest parts of China in 91/92 and after that, nothing in the UK seems extreme. No thermometer there so no idea what it got to. No cars too. I think it may have changed.

[myglaren]

Temperature in the garden just now.  Not the hottest by quite a bit but more than hot enough for me.

Sorry about the photo but the thermometer was barely visible in the bright sunlight.