Where were you when you experienced your worst weather?

Question

The best weather? And what were the situations like and where were you when you had these experiences?

My worst weather experience was in the Yukon in 1974, no clear day until January 1975 when it warmed up to 58 below zero.
Best weather experience was in 1978 in Jamaica while on vacation.

Answer 1

When my family "migrated" from Oklahoma in the 30's and 40's, they settled in Klamath Falls, Oregon...mostly to work in the saw mills and lumber industry there.

They had the coldest winters with the most snow of any place I have ever lived. Snow up past the doorframes and windows. My parents would have to "tunnel" from back door to Model T parked in the back of the house.

Best weather was in Sacramento, CA. Got really, really hot - 105-115 some days...but NO humidity. Was great! Winters were mild with no snow or ice. Very little rainfalls. I only lived there about 7 years... No matter how hot it got during the day, there was always a Delta breeze that blew in around sunset to cool everything off. Perfecto.

I spent lots of time in and around San Diego..I believe that place has the BEST weather in the U.S.; coolish, always an ocean breeze, bright blue, clear skies....fantastic.

Answer 2

It seems like everywhere I went we set some sort of weather record. So to list a few.

Bad:
Monsoon season 1970, Vietnam, it rained so hard a man could have drowned without a hat on to form an air pocket.

June, 1977 I think, Phoenix, AZ. A heat wave. 28 days straight with the temperature never dropping below 100 degrees F. One night it was 107 F. at 3:30 AM.

Winter 1985, Eielson AFB, AK. Working outside while wind chill was off the chart. The chart went to 125 degrees F. below zero. I doubt I will ever know just how cold it was. You couldn't even face into the wind as frostbite would occur in seconds.

Date unknown but I was on Eielson AFB, AK the only time the base runway was ever closed for snow.

Good:
Any winter day in Phoenix, AZ. It is certainly easy to understand why people have winter homes in that climate. It is long sleeve motorcycle weather everyday, all day long for weeks on end.

Answer 3

The winter stom in Boston, 1977 when we were snowed in for 8 days, the city had shut down. I worked in Cambrige and with the whiteout and heavy snow falling, I had to stick my head out the window and tell my husband where the road was.
Then ther is the matter of 20 hurricanes under my belt. The one in 1964 that hit my parents home hard, the lake had risen up so high that it covered the pool, destroyed the screening and put about 3" of water on the marble floors on the first floor of the house, we just cleaned up from it and it came back a few days later. THen there was hurricane Andrew, the worst storm to hit the US until Katrina. Too many other hurricanes.

Best weather, living in South Florida for many, many years.

Answer 4

Grew up in flat farm lands of NW Ohio...first hand experience with tornado, floods and blizzards. Uncle Sam provided the opportunity to experience earthquake, Hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons. Living in SW at present which adds extreme heat and sand storms and flash floods to list. What I have found is that I can keep cool much better than I can get warm. Like you I have not been to Greenland, Siberia or Antarctica and I think the worst weather was storm at sea 3 days out of Oakland in 1965 on a troop ship...sick until stop in Okinawa.

Answer 5

I've been snowed in, in PA for a few days, but I'd say the worst so far is where I am now in S FL. Wilma was supposed to only be a 1 when it hit land, but it strenghtened to a 3. My guy stopped at a bar on the way home from work & I called him & said, "You'd better get your butt home NOW! " (Something I never do) We were prepared.....shutters up, lots of jugs of water, canned & dry goods, etc. The power was out for 3 weeks, but I'm used to camping, etc, so it wasn't that bad for us. A few years before that, a tornado came through our backyard. It tore the roof off of the shed & turned over the cement table & benches. It sounded like a freight train! I found out the next day that the railroad tracks a few blocks away were torn up & a few businesses. We were lucky.

The best weather is also here. I've gone swimming in the ocean on Christmas.

Answer 6

Hurricane Francis and Jeane arrived within ten day's of each other by my home in Stuart FL., but that's not the worst. The worst was standing "deck" watch on the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier in the Artic Circle , during a gale.That was cold,windy and just miserable.The best weather, stationed in Pearl Harbour in the spring.

Answer 7

Best weather was in the Bahamas! Worst was the Blizzard of 1978, we got shirts that said that "we survived the blizzard of 1978" The Chicago Lake Michigan area.

Answer 8

I live in California so there really is no worst weather.
But it did get really dark (black) clouds one day, looked like there was going to be a tornado. It was really pouring rain and streets were flooding. People were just stopping to look up at the sky. I had never seen it that black before. Heavy hail and thunder and lightning.
Or maybe when it got up to about 115 or 118 in the summer.
for several days straight, that was a bit much.
Oh wait I was in Phoenix one time when they had one of those wind dust storms. You could actually see this HUGE dust cloud coming across the sky at you and the wind was so fierce it was like a mini tornado, it was tossing everyting around. Never saw that before and it was scary. Like getting pelted with tiny rocks.

Answer 9

My worst weather experience was hiking. We got caught in the middle of a blizzard. Had to stay put in the tent overnight and almost died of hypothermia. At first sign of day break, made a break for it and headed down the mountain. Never again, not in bad weather anyway.

Answer 10

Worst Dawson Canada. Best Maui Hawaii.