So many good points, and with Bob Collins' wonderful wit. Bob retired a few years ago and I really miss him on the radio!
So why do weatherpeople work so hard to make it sound even worse by citing the wind chill factor, which is rooted in (some say, “lame”) science, not human understanding, and serves no real purpose for understanding unless you intend to go outside naked next week?
What most weatherpeople don’t tell you is the wind chill factor “assumes that your exposed face is roughly five feet off the ground, it’s night, and you’re walking directly into the wind in an open field at a clip of about 3 mph,” according to Mental Floss.
The wind chill is irrelevant to almost everything else. It doesn’t affect your car in any way. It doesn’t affect your feet or any other body part — that is to say: almost all of your body — if you have the kind of clothing that people put on when it’s -20 anyway.
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/20...cold-shoulder/
Thinking about it, the title of this thread should be:
Weekly Wedge Issue: Wind Chill is Pointless (and just HTFU) 