What does wind chill mean? frantic00 // Shutterstock What does wind chill mean? Wind chill doesn’t refer to how cold it actually is. It’s a measure of how likely it is that an exposed part of the body will get frostbite. A Vox article explained it like this: If it’s 38 degre...
What does wind chill mean? Wind chill doesn’t refer to how cold it actually is. It’s a measure of how likely it is that an exposed part of the body will get frostbite. A Vox article explained it like this: If it’s 38 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill is 32 degrees Fahrenh...
What does wind chill mean? Wind chill doesn’t refer to how cold it actually is. It’s a measure of how likely it is that an exposed part of the body will get frostbite. A Vox article explained it like this: If it’s 38 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill is 32 degrees Fahrenh...
Forecasters expect La Niña to form in the coming months, but what does that mean for Texas?What is La Niña?According to NOAA, La Niña is the cooler phase of a weather pattern known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with El Niño being the warmer phase. La Niña develo...
Why does raising this truth in conjunction with past major storms where older mobile home parks look like a tornado hit them, all flattened from true ground based CAT 3 plus winds, make be an insensitive person not worry of rational response? Seriously, Cantori standing in the North Eye wall...
Sure, it's been cold in Minnesota lately, right? Our latest bout with all that bitter Arctic air has had many of us shivering in our boots for the past several days. I mean, when your thermometer says -13 F when you wake up in the morning, as ours did Tuesday morning, you know ...
Our latest bout with all that bitter Arctic air has had many of us shivering in our boots for the past several days. I mean, when your thermometer says -13 F when you wake up in the morning, as ours did Tuesday morning, you know it's a wee bit nippy. (BTW, the correct way to...
I mean, I'm a huge baby. I acknowledge that. I went on a tour of Bothwell Lodge the other weekend (pretty neat, by the way, you haven't been in recent years. They've done some renovations and opened up more of the house for tours) and there was, of course, no air. It wasn...
(speed-shear) is common, as you will notice when climbing a mountain: a breeze at the bottom can be a near-gale at summit-level. But in the uppertropospherethe proximity of the Polar jet stream can lead to incredibly strong winds. Speed-shear is important in convective storm forecasting ...