On Monday, March 25, 2013 7:19:46 AM UTC, wrote:
Greetings from Co Durham (Trimdon, 130m asl).
We spend a week most years XC Skiing in Arctic Lapland. Not Jack London stuff, a civilised package tour but it means I've been out regularly in really cold weather, -30 this year.
Meto keeps giving us "feels like" temps with wind chill. Well it doesn't.. Leaving aside somewhat better clothing (actually not hugely better) it stikes me that the current wind chill figures are just plain wrong. Yesterday in Tesco's car park* felt a heap worse than wandering about at -15 in still air.
Who calculates these figures? On what basis? Comfort wise they just feel wrong.
Andrew
*That really was Call of the Wild BTW
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=windchill