I have always wondered this about the wind chill factor:
Wind increases the rate at which the cold causes your body to lose heat. Does it affect a car in the same way, or is only because we are warm-blooded it has this effect on us? How about trees or fruit? They're concerned about the fruit freezing down here, of course—does the wind factor in to this substantially or not?
Lanny
What Dave said + save electricity.
ReplyDeleteYour skin loses heat by evaporation so wind will cool your body, but wind will not reduce the temperature of inanimate objects below the ambient temperature. That is why your indoor fan will cool you, but you should turn it off when you leave the room because it will not cool the furniture, walls etc.