WOW!!! Cold

Fizz wrote:
Windchill is Windchill no matter where you live.

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.

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

Windchill is Windchill no matter where you live.

John&Joey wrote:

Tom N wrote:
Quote ambient temperatures. Windchill temperatures are meaningless when making comparisons.

You've never lived up north have you. Trust me, to the body wind chill makes a huge difference in extreme cold environments.

I live in Pittsburgh and have all my 68 years.

Windchill temperatures are meaningless when making comparisons from on region to another.

-Tom

Well here in Zephyrhills, FL it didn't get quite as cold last night as it did the night before but still pretty chilly. Hope it's behind us now and we are looking forward to the 80's they're predicting for the weekend. :B

Al Gore thinks its TOO warm!

Cold here in Myrtle Beach (SC) too yesterday. It never got above freezing with a high of 27F, got down to 14F Monday night.

Should be getting back up to 'normal' with a 68-71F over the weekend.

cold in s fla tonite mid 30s

AUWing wrote:
It's so cold here we're chipping puppies off of fire hydrants

:B

pawatt wrote:
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 125 degrees warmer than that here today. Just heard that WI schools are also closed.

News report today in North Central Florida:

.....40 degrees in Florida and one county school closed today due to the "cold". :R

.....at 45 degrees they make special arrangements for the homeless so they don't freeze to death. :R

News Report in Wisconsin:
All the kids and homeless moving to Florida. :B

It's so cold here we're chipping puppies off of fire hydrants