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Old March 25th 13, 10:36 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Freddie wrote:

Meto keeps giving us "feels like" temps with wind chill.


AFAIK, no wind chill calculation formulas take account of air humidity.


. . . such formulae do exist - here's one from the Australian
meteorology bureau -
http://www.bom.gov.au/info/thermal_s...tapproximation


Ah, yes - for hot climates, to help fighting heat stress. That't why the
site is an Australian one :-)

That website also reproduced a chart for sub-zero temperatures, with
"wind chill temp" as a function of temperature and wind speed, but with
a _fixed_ RH of 70 %.

What I meant to say was "AFAIK, no wind chill calculation formulas take
account of air humidity for sub-zero temperatures."

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