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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I wish they would change the wind chill reading to something people can understand. I think a wind chill is not the actual temperature, but what the temperature "feels" like, based on the wind. This is very confusing.
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In a nutshell,
'windchill equivalency' is simply a comparative measurement...
on the rate of heat loss.
In other words, if something (human body/car engine/etc.) starts out warmer than the ambient temperature, it will lose heat at an accelerated rate in a wind...that is equal to a colder ambient temperature with no wind.
Inanimate (or even animate) objects will NEVER get colder than the ambient temperature...regardless if the wind is blowing 100 mph.