What is wind chill?
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What is wind chill?
Weather:
Weather has many factors that contribute to its formation, to it changing, or to its severity. The time of year (season), trade winds and jet streams, warmth of the oceans, atmospheric pressure, elevation above sea level, wind speeds, moisture level, and even geological structures, like mountains all have influence on the weather in any given region and time of year. So many variables makes the task of forecasting weather a difficult one, but more powerful computers and better models of the weather are improving predictions of future weather patterns.
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View this answerWind chill is a phenomenon whereby the temperature is effectively lowered due to the increased heat loss from the wind passing over the exterior of an...
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Chapter 3 / Lesson 6Understand what wind chill is and read its causes. Learn how to calculate wind chill, see a wind chill chart and find its different effects on humans.