Quote Originally Posted by Caradoc

I spent a day in the summer of 1990 (I think - it's gotten fuzzy) selling Electrolux vacuum cleaners door-to-door in 122 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona.
Think that was '90. Only got up to 117 here. That was the day that they had to close down the airports, b/c commercial aircraft weren't rated to fly at temps that high.