What's the worst weather you've ever been in?

[NoMoreDrugs]

Sure is a lot of political talk about here...how about a break?

For me, I live in the L.A. area. It's usually known for being pleasant and mild, but my area sure isn't. Summers start out nice, with temps around 80-85 Fahrenheit (26-29 Celsius), but from August to September 100 degrees (38 Celsius) is the norm. I've been through numerous nights with temps at around 90 (32 Celsius), but I managed to find out that the heat has soared to 119 (48 Celsius). Gawddayum.

So, what are your weather nightmare stories?

[Mkuki]

Probably a hail storm.

[Nadkor]

A three-day thunderstorm while camping in a rainforest in very northern Argentina in July 2002.

I swear I've never seen raindrops so big before or after. And the thunder. Fucking hell. There was a gap of about two hours in the middle of one night, and we went outside to have a look around; the air was just the freshest I think ever, and there was that almost buzz that you can feel in the middle of a big storm.

Didn't sleep much because of the noise, but the whole thing was amazing.

[EnragedMaldivians]

Weather in St-Andrews, Fife is pretty shit. Easily the worst weather of all the places I've ever lived in.

It can get incredibly windy here on occasion; I remember two, or one and a half years ago when the wind was so intense it caused a tree to uproot and fall on top of a car.

[Gidgetisms]

-45 with the windchill, drifting snow. Shit to drive in, we all got frostbite walking in to work...

[The Serbian Empire]

Dense fog with visibility down to about 25 feet as a passenger in a car in fall of 1998. Another would be heavy snow between Houghton Lake and Sault Ste. Marie where cars were spinning down the off ramp on I-75, but that's nothing to being in fog so thick you could barely see past the hood of your car.
Highest Temperature: 101 F, heat index 118
Lowest Temperature: -15 F, wind chill of -35

[Cannot think of a name]

I grew up in the Sacramento Valley, so regular summers of 110f. It's still in the 80s and 90s at 3am, when we used to sneak into swimming pools.

[Exenstar]

A two-day windstorm. It's Utah's version of tornadoes and hurricanes, with winds hitting up to 120 miles an hour. You couldn't even drive on the roads, due to the number of wrecks and semi's tipped over. The walls were torn from houses, people were pushed in the direction of the wind, and most people's power was out.

[Costa Alegria]

Weather in St-Andrews, Fife is pretty shit. Easily the worst weather of all the places I've ever lived in.

It can get incredibly windy here on occasion; I remember two, or one and a half years ago when the wind was so intense it caused a tree to uproot and fall on top of a car.

Try 200.

Probably the worst weather I've experienced was either December 2011 when the city received 674mm of rain in 48 hours or that windstorm where over 200 trees were uprooted.

In saying that, we're currently under a severe thunderstorm watch (by New Zealand standards anyway, those of you who live inside the Midwest) so things could go (unfortunately) to shit overnight.

[Manahakatouki]

Up north in Ontario, we camped in tents and had to face the storm that went by for three or four days...

We were so far from any shelter, we just hunkered down the entire time, while the wind kept blowing away our food and equipment tent, and soaked through our sleeping tents...

By the fourth day, I remember my dad saying something along the lines of, "I go inside my tent to find a swimming pool where I'm supposed to sleep..."...

[Tubbsalot]

A three-day thunderstorm while camping in a rainforest in very northern Argentina in July 2002.

Oh, you lucky bastard.

The worst weather I've ever been in was a three-day streak of 46-degree weather a few summers ago (115 for you Americans). Wasn't great.

[Jinwoy]

Worst weather?
I was in Kuranda, Queensland at the time of Cyclone Yasi and to be blunt - it wasn't that bad up there. Not even Cairns suffered too badly, it was back to normal in a couple of weeks I heard.
I've seen worse storms in Auckland, New Zealand. One particular night, I was in a hotel there and the storm was rattling the windows and such. A few minutes later, I heard a TORNADO struck in the West. (Tornadoes a near unheard of in NZ)

Best weather is differently north of Auckland, at a area known as "Red Beach".
During the Summer, you'd go to the beach (Duuurrrr. That was hard to figure out.) and the air was often crisp with the fresh winds from the ocean. During the Winter, you'd stay home, sit next to the fireplace while enjoying a cup of soup or hot chocolate. It was nice.
I like grey skies. I have no idea why.

[Meowfoundland]

That hail storm last year or the year before where the stones were from golf ball size to soft ball size in my area. Our car got trashed, and a few houses collapsed.

Either that or that time is was 46 degrees and over a hundred people died in bushfires.

[Kintuckistan]

When I was around five years old there was a tornado circling above my neighborhood that never touched group.

Nightmares for a little kid.

[Xathranaar]

I once walked a mile or so in -58 degrees Fahrenheit (-50 C). That was... well, painful.

The worst part was that I pulled my hat down over my face so that it could act like a ski-mask. Unfortunately when I got inside I went to pull it off, not realizing that my breath had frozen the thing fairly securely to my mustache. I lost many a hair that day.

[Costa Alegria]

I've seen worse storms in Auckland, New Zealand. One particular night, I was in a hotel there and the storm was rattling the windows and such. A few minutes later, I heard a TORNADO struck in the West. (Tornadoes a near unheard of in NZ)

Auckland does seem to get pretty nasty ones (as does Christchurch).

[LiangLai]

Two snow/ice storms, or maybe three... and a hurricane or close to it.

I think four years ago around late November/early December there was a huge ice blizzard type thing. I was lucky that my power didn't go out, but school was out for me for a week at least.

Second time was three years ago when there was a giant snowstorm in February-ish. I think there was at least 1-2 feet of snow in my area, school was out for a week. Then the next week we were supposed to return, it snowed another foot or so lol.

When I was a lot younger, I remember being at a beach, and it was really cloudy/windy. By the time I got back to my mom's car near the beach, I was soaking wet and covered in sand. Pretty sure I was in a really weak hurricane, but didn't know what it was at the time.

[Cannot think of a name]

When I was around five years old there was a tornado circling above my neighborhood that never touched group.

Nightmares for a little kid.

A tornado hit my home town when I was a teenager, super short and mild comparatively, which is good since not being around them ever I saw it and went, "What the fuck is that?" and drove towards it.

[Cameroi]

i'm not sure what you mean be "worst". most dramatic would probably be 70 mph winds and 8ft of snow in 8 hours on donner summit on the second of june of 1968.
i thought it was rather cool myself. even if the power was off for a week afterwards.

i guess i must be just lucky, having never parked my fat ass in the path of getting kicked by mom nature. a bit of a breeze ain't no thing in a house built of bridge timbers and connected with all the others, the depot, and the chow hall, by snow sheds. and the general store and post office immediately across the highway from the end of them.

[Grenartia]

Hurricane Katrina, and the weather in its aftermath. I lived in one of the suburbs of New Orleans (Kenner, LA, where Louis Armstrong International Airport is) at the time. We evacuated to a small town called Ponchatoula near where I-12 meets I-55. There wasn't any flooding there, because we were north of Lake Ponchartrain, but we lost water and power for a month, and had to live off of a generator. It only made things slightly better, as it could only power a few things (fridge, stove, microwave, a TV, and a window unit AC).

I don't remember much about the storm itself, with regards to the weather in either town, aside from the fact that we got a shitton of rain and strong winds (in Ponchatoula, we were outside that circle around the eye where the winds are hurricane force, but close enough to it so that it was equivalent to a direct hit from a very strong tropical storm, but I think Kenner got hurricane-force winds, and I'm fairly certain it saw at least one tornado spun off from the storm).

What I do remember very well, was the heat. Almost immediately after, the heat became unbearable (seemingly moreso than a standard Louisiana summer, and even though since then that I've been outside in temperatures way worse than what was recorded post-Katrina, it seems like the heatwave then was worse). On top of this, there was the dryness. It seems like less than a week after the storm, where we were, aside from the lack of water and power and the fallen trees everywhere, that there was no storm at all. I don't think I saw a single damn drop of rain until Rita went through the area in October.

[Slembana]

I live in Scotland, meaning that my weather is pretty awful most of the time. However, the worst weather I've ever been in would be when I was on holiday to Southern France in June/July 2012. On two days (1 and 5 July, I think), lightning struck, and the rain outside was lashing it down.

[Zonolia]

Worse? Probably the great (not really) hailstorm of a few years back...

Most annoying? Whenever it storms and the wind shakes 1/2 of the house including the wall right behind the headboard of my bed...

[Kilobugya]

Caught in a snow storm while hiking in the Alps. I never appreciated so much a hot chocolate than the one I took when arriving at the mountain hut

[Anarkadia]

Hurricane Katrina.

I lost my house. A big ass tree fell through the middle of it.

[Hypparchia]

The first days of dry season down in Nigeria.