Posted
3/27/2009 05:06:00 PM
by Douglas
Wind chill is a meaningless, made-up term used to scare old people, and here's how they make
it up.Here's the formula for figuring the wind chill factor.
The National Weather Service's new wind chill formula is:
Twc=35.74 + 0.6215Ta - 35.75V0.16 + 0.4275TaV0.16
Where Twc is the wind chill temperature, Ta is the ambient temperature and V is wind speed.
It's all a scam. A 33ºF ambient temperature and a 10 mph wind "results" in a 25ºF wind chill, yet that environment still isn't cold enough to freeze water. Ever.