Posted on 07/23/2011 2:45:57 PM PDT by donna
Here in the California desert, it was 113 for a couple of days last week, but the weatherette had the “feels like” pegged at around 101 due to bone-dry (7 and 8 percent humidity) moisture content.
We’ve noticed the same thing when visiting my folks out in AZ. The temp says it is 115, but you’d swear it was in the 90s or so.
It’s 82 in Sacramento at 2:30 in the afternoon. It feels like 78 if you factor in the low humidity and windchill factor.
They’re messin’ with your mind. Ignore them. Turn it off.
One only needs to step outside to know what the weather is.
Period. End of story.
Actually, two meteorologists on our local station explained that the wind chill ONLY affects bare exposed skin. It doesn’t affect how our pipes or plants will react, or how our cars will start, or how we feel inside our homes.
Well, sorry, but they’re wrong. Evapourative cooling is evapourative cooling, regardless of whether it’s taking place on a pipe or on your skin.
I remember when wind chill first came about. They specifically said it was how the wind affects bare skin. But I have a great idea. Let’s stop reporting the actual weather and just report what the feels like temps are. And why stop there? Let’s report what the rainfall “seems” like? It may actually be 2 inches of rain, but it may “seem” like more, so let’s just report the “seems” like and the “feels” like and forego the facts?
Sigh. Nevermind.
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