extreme temperatures
Severe heat or cold
Extreme temperatures are those far outside the comfortable range for humans, equipment, or biological processes—intense heat or severe cold.
The phrase appears in weather warnings, product specifications, and scientific contexts: The equipment is rated to withstand extreme temperatures.
What counts as extreme depends on context; desert heat and arctic cold both qualify, as do industrial furnace conditions.
- heatwavesExtended periods of excessive warmth
- heat domeStationary high-pressure extreme warmth
- scorching heatIntense, burning temperatures
- cold snapsBrief periods of freezing weather
- bitter coldExtremely low temperature
hypothermia · radiation exposure · polar vortex · dead of winter · below freezing · ice storm · desertification · blizzards · thermal insulation · frostbite · cryogenics · cooling systems · windchill · thermal shock · wildfires · heatstroke · boiling point · absolute zero
- hazardsfire hazard, fire hazards, toxin, contamination, tripping hazard
- Gobicold desert, dinosaur fossils, fossil beds, sandstorm, dust storm
- Inner Planetssurface, atmosphere, orbit, core, mantle
extreme temperaturesmoderate temperatures
Neither scorching nor freezing
mild temperatures · mild climate · temperate climate · moderate climate · room temperature