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To: Amendment10

It possibly could, but you need moisture in the air to cause evaporative cooling, and at those temps, the air is pretty dry.


25 posted on 02/02/2014 1:11:54 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation; Amendment10

Evaporative cooling stops when the moisture freezes.

Wind chill refers not to the temperature reached, but rather to how rapidly heat is lost in getting to that temperature.

IOW, a person (or anything else above ambient temperature) outside at 0F and 10 mph wind (-16F windchill) would lose heat as fast as a person at a temperature of -16F and no wind. But once he reached 0F he wouldn’t cool below that temperature no matter how long outside.


31 posted on 02/02/2014 1:24:07 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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