A few years ago, I did some writing about windchill. Because while the existence of windchill is obvious, the why is less so. Why should the wind make us feel colder? The answer has something to do with the nature of temperature and cold. Go on and read it if you’re interested:
Windchill
It’s not really that cold out, is it? Are you asking the thermometer? To a chemist or a physicist, temperature is really just a measure of how fast the molecules that make up air are moving, how much energy they have. To those of us more interested in what the thermometer says outside, temperature has more to do with the rate at which we exchange heat with the environment. At the same temperature, a metal spoon will feel hotter than a wooden one; The metal spoon, being metal and thus more conductive exchanges heat with us at a faster rate,…
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