When conditions are cold, wind can strip away the warm layer of air insulating your skin. Because of this, wind makes the effective temperature to your body colder than the actual air temperature.

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Did you know that wind chill is actually a calculation rather than a measurement? The wind chill only affects objects whose temperature cannot drop below the actual air temperature. In other words, ...

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Wind chill alone can never make an object colder than the air temperature. The Weather Service began to include wind chill in their forecasts in the early 1970s. When the wind chill is around 40 ...