Even the term ‘wind chill’ has changed.
As a paperboy in the Twin Cities in the 70s, we had one winter day where the temperature was -32F with high winds. I still had papers to deliver. I wore as many layers of clothes as was possible. I was able to deliver papers for about five minutes before I had to go back in my dad’s car to warm up for five minutes, mainly because my eyeballs got so cold that it was getting hard to see. The news reported that it was a wind chill of -101F.
Apparantly, the wind chill scale was changed later on. Now you can’t get that kind of wind chill.
Yeah, I remember that. -100 used to be pretty routine in Maine. I remember my dad cursing because it was -120 with the wind chill, and he'd just called my grandfather in NC.....who had just come in from mowing his lawn.
They changed the windchill scale 20-ish years ago, I think. Not that it matters any. You don't want to be out in -60 degree cold, any more than you want to be out in -100 degree cold.
You still can, but you have to get it off a military chart. The worst I have seen was -146, according to the chart (-60 with a 40 MPH wind, Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984). Saturated salt water based drilling fluid blowing off the end of the shale shaker (I was working on a drill site) was freezing in mid-air in about 4 feet. I was getting splattered with it, but it just bounced off. I was very well dressed for the weather, but only good for about five minutes at a time out in it.