Wind chill can also affect inanimate objects as well, but an object outside can only cool down to what the air temperature is, and will never go below that. As an example, if the temperature outside is -5F, and the wind chill is -31F, an object outside can only cool down to -5 but will cool down at the same rate as if it were -31 outside.

With winter weather settling over Michigan, here's what you need to know about exposed skin as the temperature drops and winds pick up.

After an unusually warm December, the temperatures took a nosedive, dropping, below freezing on Monday and Tuesday morning. To top it off, those strong north winds made it feel even colder than what our thermometers might have shown.