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A cold weather advisory (formerly known as a wind chill advisory until October 2024) [1] is a hazardous weather statement issued by Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to alert the public that temperatures or wind chills are forecast to reach values low enough that it poses a threat to human health and life if adequate protection is not ...
A wind chill warning was a hazardous weather statement previously issued by both local forecast offices of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States and by the Meteorological Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) when wind chills were forecast to reach values low enough for residents and travelers to be susceptible to life-threatening medical conditions (such as ...
a wind chill warning remains in effect until noon cst tuesday. * this is a particularly dangerous situation! * wind chill values: 35 to 65 below...with the coldest readings tonight and monday morning. * impacts: exposed flesh will freeze in 10 minutes with wind chills of 35 below...and in 5 minutes with wind chills of 50 below or colder.
You can also approximate the wind chill with a little mental math: If the temperature is minus 13 degrees and the wind speed is 15 mph, the wind chill will be somewhere between minus 32 and minus 39.
The American College of Sports Medicine says tissue injury can occur in 30 minutes or less when it's that cold outside. I would also make sure your area isn't under a wind chill advisory .
Jan. 13—Dangerously cold wind chills have settled over the area through early next week as the light snow comes to an end. The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill warning from 9 p.m ...
An extreme cold watch is a weather watch issued by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS) to inform the public that "dangerously cold air, with or without wind, is possible." The extreme cold watch is a 'step' below the "extreme cold warning." [1] As of 1 October 2024, the NWS replaced the "wind chill watch" with the "extreme cold ...
Local Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service may issue a Special Weather Statement to alert of a specified hazard that is approaching or below warning or advisory criteria, that does not have a specific alert product code of their own (such as for widespread funnel clouds with limited to no threat of complete tornadogenesis, the likelihood of landspouts, or strong ...