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  2. Wind chill - Wikipedia

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    Wind chill index values for a range of temperatures and wind speeds, from the standard wind chill formula for Environment Canada. Wind chill (popularly wind chill factor) is the sensation of cold produced by the wind for a given ambient air temperature on exposed skin as the air motion accelerates the rate of heat transfer from the body to the surrounding atmosphere.

  3. What Is Wind Chill And What Makes It So Dangerous? - AOL

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    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.

  4. Charles Eagan - Wikipedia

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    Charles Eagan (1921 – March 11, 2010) was a Canadian scientist working in cold weather physiology, known primarily for advancing the wind chill formula.. Antarctic explorers Paul Siple and Charles Passel had created their original formula for wind chill measurements in 1939 by drawing on data that showed how long it took water to freeze in a cylinder under various wind and temperature ...

  5. What is wind chill? How the 'feels like' temperature can ...

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    Wind chill makes it feel much colder than it really is, so it's been described as a "feels-like" number. If the temperature is 0 degrees and the wind is blowing at 15 mph, the wind chill is 19 ...

  6. Cold weather advisory - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Wind chill watch - Wikipedia

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    A wind chill watch is a weather watch formerly issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when the wind chill could reach dangerous levels within the next 12 to 48 hours; as of October 2024 it has been re-named "extreme cold watch." The exact definition required to issue a watch varies from state to state or from National ...

  8. Nha Trang - Wikipedia

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    According to some researchers, the name Nha Trang derives from a Vietnamese spelling of the Cham language name of the site Ea Dran (literally "Reed River"), the name of the Cai River as referred to by the Cham people. From the name of this river, the name was adopted to call what is now Nha Trang, which was officially made Vietnam's territory ...

  9. Chill factor - Wikipedia

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    Chill Factor, a 1992 science fiction novel by Laurence James (James Axler) Chill Factore (styled Chill Factor e), an indoor ski slope in Manchester, England; Chill Factor, a 1987 album by American country music artist Merle Haggard "Chill Factor" (song), a 1988 song from the LP