From the Midwest to the East Coast, record-breaking heat is forcing cities to cancel events, open cooling centers, and warn ...

Answer: Popularly put, wind chill is “how cold it feels.” Bob Oravec, a forecaster for the National Weather Service (NWS) says, “It’s how it feels when you’re out in cold weather with ...

Feels-like: wind chill When the air temperature itself is cold and the winds are moving at a higher speed, it can pull more heat away from the body and cause the water on our skin to evaporate faster.

Wind chill chart (Courtesy of the National Weather Service) As for the mid-February cold snap, Thursday morning is leaving some areas like Georgetown with 44 mph wind speeds.

The temperature reads 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15 degrees Celsius) without wind chill shortly after noon on Jan. 20 downtown in West Branch. Photo by Douglas P. Marsh By Douglas P.

Think again. The way meteorologists gauge the wind chill changed in 2001. First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Steve Beylon explains the wind chill chart in the video above.

For example, a temperature of minus 5 degrees with a 20 mph wind gives a wind chill near minus 30 degrees, which means your body will lose heat at the same rate as it would if the air temperature ...

When temperatures fall and wind speeds pick up, people heading outdoors can face dangerous wind chills in Michigan. Cold air on its own can be dangerous if a person isn't dressed for the weather, but ...

What does the wind chill index tell you? The index takes into account heat loss from the human body to its surroundings during cold and windy weather. The calculation utilizes wind speed in miles per ...

As an example, if the temperature outside is -5F, and the wind chill is -31F, an object outside can only cool down to -5 but will cool down at the same rate as if it were -31 outside.