The real point is that all this cold weather got me thinking about windchill – what is it exactly? How is it determined? Let’s do some everyday analysis. Scientific depiction of polar vortex phenomena (not to scale)īut I digress. Wind Chill Temperature Comparison (Old vs. However, there is a chart provided on the NOAA website that shows what the wind chill is based on the temperature and. When there is all this talk of a polar vortex, all I could think of was a particularly ridiculous TV-movie that came out lately, and that this is our Northern equivalent, which probably looked something like this artist’s depiction below: Wind chill is the popular name used to describe what cold WEATHER feels like at various combinations of low temperature and high WIND. If you want to calculate wind chill temperature, there is a formula to do so. This calculator estimates the temperature felt by the body as a result of wind speed and actual air temperature. So cold that weird stuff happened, including the ground exploding here in Ontario due to frost quakes, or cryoseisms, as they are technically known (or as my sister suggested they should be called, “frosted quakes” – get it?) This article discusses briefly the advances made and the remaining short-comings in the 'new' wind chill charts adopted in the US and Canada in 2001. Meteorologists stated that a lot of people (those in younger generations) would never have experienced anything like this before – cold from the freezing temperatures and high winds the likes of which parts of the US and Canada haven’t seen for 40 years. If you haven’t been reading the news, don’t live in the American Midwest or Canada, or do and didn’t go outside the last couple weeks (for which I don’t blame you) there was some mighty cold weather lately due to something called a polar vortex.
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