WOW!!! Cold
It is so cold in MN that the governor ordered all schools in MN closed Monday, In my 63 years I do not remember this. -55 below wind chills in our home town. Sure thankful we are snowbirding. It was 1...
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Fizz wrote:True, but if the wind speed is not the same, comparing one region to another means nothing. Ambient temperature should be quoted when making comparisons. Especially, for RVing topics when we are very interested in our systems freezing. Prue water freezes at 32F ambient temperature. Wind speed does not affect the fact water freezes at 32F.
Windchill is Windchill no matter where you live.
If the ambient temp is 40F and the wind speed is 15mph, the wind chill is 32F. Water will not freeze at this wind chill of 32.
BTW, my Dad knew the developer of the wind chill chart. He was Paul Siple, an antarctic explorer with Richard Byrd.
-Tom
