The National Weather Service has warned that bitterly cold wind chills could result in hypothermia or frostbite.
The way meteorologists gauge the wind chill changed in 2001. First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Steve Beylon explains ...
With all the talk about wind chill this week, have you ever wondered how it is calculated? Wind chill can make the air feel ...
Once wind chill values reach -20°, it only takes 30 minutes or less for frostbite to set in. Surprisingly, humidity does not ...
Most of those publications use an old wind chill formula which produces numbers that are extremely low and inaccurate,” said Sabol. The wind chill formula changed in 2001 with updated research.” ...
We’re not breaking records, but it’s been several years since Western New York has experienced such cold conditions.
In this Weather Wednesday we look into how the term 'wind chill' came to be and how it has evolved since then.
The National Weather Service’s formula to calculate wind chill is: 35.74 + 0.6215T – 35.75(V0.16) + 0.4275T(V0.16). Where “T” represents air temperature in Fahrenheit and “V ...
The result was the wind chill formula we have in existence today. The new wind chill uses the wind speed at 5 feet, the average height of the human face instead of using anemometer wind speeds at ...