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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.
Short title: wind chill-Table; Date and time of digitizing: 18:57, 16 January 2024: Software used: Numbers: File change date and time: 02:58, 16 January 2024
The weather service began to include wind chill in their forecasts in the early 1970s, several decades after Antarctic explorers first published research about it in the late 1930s.
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 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.
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.
In the United States an extreme cold warning was an experimental weather warning issued by the National Weather Service in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. [5] The warning was issued if the temperature fell to −35 °F (−37 °C) or colder with a wind of less than 5 mph (8 km/h; 2 m/s). [6]
The combination of high speed winds and freezing temperatures can be deadly. What to know about staying warm as cold fronts move through Tennessee.