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To feel what 130+ degree temps feel like.

Obvious they've not worked in a factory, or a few other jobs some could probably name.

Yep, I worked in and retired from a large caliber cannon manufacturing facility. It could get brutally hot and humid in the shops. All the while taking big cuts cutting steel and generating more heat. Standing over a big lathe chip pan full of hot, hot chips from a turning operation on a gun tube. Sometimes we had working fans... I don't miss that a bit !

A construction camp in Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar comes to mind.

I would put out nail strips on the road and water stands on the shoulder.

Worked in a German Bakery in high school. It was brutal in the winter too.

Lay down 300 degree asphalt on a 110 degree day.

Pulling veneer in a plywood plant at the end of a 400 degree dryer; swing shift; on a 105 degree summer day in Medford, Oregon. It felt so cool to go outside on break.

Installing air conditioning and vents in an attic in August in Texas...

130* ain't even close.

High-top leather boots, full-length Nomex flight suit, gloves, helmet, and oxygen mask. Now close that bubble plexiglass canopy while on the concrete parking area. In August in Laredo, Texas. Outside air 110 degrees. In-cockpit air - nobody wants to know. (No air conditioning in the T-37 jet while on the ground.) Not uncommon to lose eight to ten pounds per flight in water loss. We went home near heat exhaustion and very, very "ripe."

I used to build grain bins that would get 130 inside on a sunny day.

Plenty of hot jobs out there. I can recall a 95 degree day when we went outside the coal fired power plant to stand around on the blacktop in the sun to take a break because it was cooler out there. The boilers were running a higher steam load ( more steam = more heat) so we could generate more electricity to meet the increased demands of a hot day.

I've been to Death Valley in August.
It was warmish.

Changing ladle bucket w furnace at 1200 a few ft away...on a 100 degree day outside.

Or burn out a stuck pc w blowtorch, inside a die.....

Good times

29 years at Johns Manville, fire proof testing the asbestos loom for final finish.

When I was fresh out of the Army and we were just starting out, I worked at a sawmill in Juliaetta, Idaho. I worked loading lumber into boxcars. We had a thermometer down under the loading docks, in the shade, and our highest reading was 112F. We had no shade. I don't know what the temp was inside a black boxcar on a 100+ day but it was damn hot. You had to be careful not to touch the car or you would get burnt. On a typical day we would load two boxcars full; roughly, 100,000 board feet. My wife would send a gallon of iced tea with me in the morning and I would have drunk that by noon. I would fill the jar with cold water for the afternoon (kept it in a pile of sawdust). I wore a headband to keep the sweat out of my eyes. When I got home from work, I would soak in a tub of cool water.
One of the partners I had was a recent transplant from Bakersfield and I don't think the guy even sweated. Little, wiry guy who seemed to thrive on the heat. Another guy, a big husky guy, about 220, lasted most of one day and had to go home. GD

125+ in Bahrain in the summer WITH humidity I think the heat index was 150 +/-

Like Rocky’s T-37’s, the air conditioning of an F-4 didn’t work on deck either. In the South China Sea and Gonzo Station off of Iran, the flight deck would get pretty stinkin’ hot in the summer sun. When they started taxiing you out of your spot, the canopies had be down. With the sun beating down on the steel deck, canopies down, helmet, mask and all your flight gear on and no a/c, it didn’t take long for the sweat to start rolling down your face. Guess where all the sweat went when they launched you off the front end at 175-180 knots. Right in the old eyeballs. Couldn’t see $hit for several seconds. 😵‍💫

On the other hand, the Tomcat’s a/c was really good on deck or in the air. Sometimes the fans would be blowing so hard, it was a little hard to understand ICS and radio calls. 🥶

how did i know this was coming?

I spent 2 Mos working beside a air strip in NAM jets taking off 24-7 will be all you want..as soon as you stepped out side sweat would be dripping off your nose on the first step...

Worked pulling red hot sheets for railroad cars out of the press with tongs. My biggest fear was passing out and falling on a red hot sheet. Some of the best money I ever earned.

I would have thought they could get hotter than that on a three digit day.