Pick My Postcode’s Stackpot Draws

Death Valley, California. Badwater Basin in particular it was the first and only time I felt the saliva sizzle out of my mouth 49 degrees

Ditto Shyboy and Purple/Mauve avatar. It was too darned hot to even walk down the gang plank of the Felucca that took us across The Nile to get to the Valley of Kings. It was sooooo tempting to just jump in the water!

I went to Gambia in the early 80's ended walking down the high street of the capital when it was 47 C. Should of had a hat, though it was at least a dry heat.

I don't know but probably on the footplate of a steam loco or more likely in a steel factory.

47c, in Sweden

Well I would say July this year we hit 38c in Somerset. I lived in Australia for 3 years and it was hot, but I've no idea of the actual temp. I only remember sitting on the bathroom floor on very hot days as it was the coolest place in the house. I don't remember it being as humid in Oz as it is here though, although Darwin in the Northern Territory was very humid when we stopped over on our way to Sydney. The heat and humidity hit like being in a sauna.

Low 40s in a heat wave in France in 2003.

I hate the heat and have never been anywhere that hot. I am getting a bit sick of all the articles I keep seeing from people in Australia and other hot places telling us moaning Brits what we need to do in the heat. They're comparing apples and oranges here, as our humidity makes even much lower temperatures worse. The 'wet bulb' temperature is what matters as it tells you what the temperature feels like considering the humidity.

40+ in Luxor in June

40 in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.

41/42 walking in Abu Dhabi in mid 70's

Initial entry into cars was probably a lot higher but short lived!

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42/43 in Valley of the Kings. 🥵

I turkey we went to the abandoned village, and I think it hit about 45C. No shade anywhere.

We saw a genuine 52 in the shade in Jeddah in mid 80s. Parking your car in the sun was a nightmare. My mate had a Firebird and the thermometer went up to 60, but it was well past that. Cassettes used to melt, I had one welded to the dashboard, and don’t ever touch your arm on the buckle of the seat belt. I’ve still got the burn mark. I’d guess we saw close to 60 in the sun. You could get sunburn walking to work (10 minutes)

0ver 50c in Saudi Arabia, the official temp was 49 point something. The official temp never reached 50 or above because if it did everybody had to stop working and that would not be allowed!

One of my colleagues had the soles of his shoes melt while on the ramp at Dammam Airport. All that wide open concrete in the desert, no idea how that got...

42 in Spain for ex sister in law wedding.... I don't do heat but she looked glorious.

Mildly off topic but I worked for the Meteorological Office (before it modernised its name!) on Shetland in the 1980s and was on duty when we recorded a temperature of 20.1 degrees. So what, you might ask? Well, temperatures were recorded by a pen tracing out a path on a chart on a very slowly turning drum (one week to do one revolution) and the chart we used only went up to 20 degrees - there were different ones for different ranges of temperature depending on location and I don't think anyone expected to see a temperature beginning with a '2' at our beautiful, windswept, paradise.

Fun fact - visibility is measured in kilometres and the maximum on the scale is 70km, coded '89' if memory serves. It was not uncommon for us to estimate the visibility to be well in excess of that depending on how clearly we could see Foula and Fair Isle, AS I was told by my boss, "If you can see Foula, it's going to rain. If you can't see Foula, it's raining."

Totally off topic but, as you can tell, I loved my job and I loved Shetland, where the murder rate is a lot lower than you'd believe if you've watched too much television!

50℃ in Kuwait sometime in the mid 1980s

I bought Stop the Cavalry with a few pennies of pocket money... must have been around 10 or 11...

I had no idea "Terry Dactyl" was Jonah Lewie! Must tell my husband. He loves Seaside Shuffle and also Stop the Cavalry, but he has no idea it was the same person either! :-D

I loved that song ! It defined 80s house parties.

But why do they call it a wing walk, when they only stand, strapped very securely to a rigid pole?

Just seen her on the 10pm news. What a wonderful attitude to life.

She did one a few years ago, and was the oldest woman in the world to do a wing walk. She has consolidated her record, and she plans to do it again when she's 100! She says she can't do much, because of her poor sight, she she enjoys doing what she can.

Brilliant ANN.

Good for her.

97 years YOUNG if you don't mind!

She's done it before & wanted to see what she had missed before.

Never give up hope. Any active account could win at any time.

At least you checked even if your heart missed a beat. Just keep checking and maybe, just maybe, one day it will be yours.

@DaSoothMoother- you are already lucky beyond compare just living with a ZE postcode, stop being greedy!!!

Give me a clue, Mainland or somewhere more remote? I lived at the Wireless in Lerwick for three years and loved the old rock. Used to drink in the Kveldsro, wonderful views across the Sound to Bressay. In those days, the ferry was 10 pence each way ...

I like it when I see my initials too Tudiefair. You're very lucky to have won twice! I shall keep hoping for a win 😀

My problem is LE postcodes - Start getting excited then remember I need ZE codes!

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😁 I get excited when I see my initials which is quite often. Can’t moan, though, as I’ve won twice.