It's a mother thing. To be fair my mother tended to project her ills more onto my sister than my brother and me.
In my long sojourn in the Midwest, I experienced -20 wind chills many times, and -20 degrees F (with no wind) once. Minus 20 F (-29 C) is not fun. Wind chill is a joke, unless you plan to ran out in the cold half-naked and stay there. I remember the TV weatherman in Columbus, Ohio attempting to answer a viewer question about how wind chill is calculated. "Well, it's a table. You look up the temperature and cross reference it with the wind speed." In other words he had no idea how it was calculated. He just read it off a chart that who-knows-who drew up who-knows-when. There is a newer method. The following applies to Fahrenheit.
Calculate the wind chill using the National Weather Service's new formula. Multiply the temperature by 0.6215 and then add 35.74. Subtract 35.75 multiplied by the wind speed calculated to the 0.16 power. Finally, add 0.4275 multiplied by temperature, multiplied by wind speed calculated to the 0.16 power.
Or just say it's not a great idea to go out in a cold wind unprepared for wind.
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Date: 2019-01-31 02:43 pm (UTC)In my long sojourn in the Midwest, I experienced -20 wind chills many times, and -20 degrees F (with no wind) once. Minus 20 F (-29 C) is not fun. Wind chill is a joke, unless you plan to ran out in the cold half-naked and stay there. I remember the TV weatherman in Columbus, Ohio attempting to answer a viewer question about how wind chill is calculated. "Well, it's a table. You look up the temperature and cross reference it with the wind speed." In other words he had no idea how it was calculated. He just read it off a chart that who-knows-who drew up who-knows-when. There is a newer method. The following applies to Fahrenheit.
Calculate the wind chill using the National Weather Service's new formula. Multiply the temperature by 0.6215 and then add 35.74. Subtract 35.75 multiplied by the wind speed calculated to the 0.16 power. Finally, add 0.4275 multiplied by temperature, multiplied by wind speed calculated to the 0.16 power.
Or just say it's not a great idea to go out in a cold wind unprepared for wind.