Wind chill watches, warnings get new names from National Weather Service Beginning Oct. 1, the National Weather Service made the following changes to wind chill watches, warnings and advisory: ...

The National Weather Service is eliminating wind chill advisories, watches and warnings from its forecasts.

You can still find the Wind Chill Chart on the National Weather Service website. So, wind chills are still used, but not in the messaging that they use to warn people.

The National Weather Service will now only issue cold weather advisories and extreme cold watches and warnings in an effort to clear up public confusion.

The National Weather Service changed the formula based on experiments measuring actual skin temperatures of people in a wind tunnel, which was more accurate than previous wind chill experiments.

Wind chill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by the combination of wind and cold, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Weather Service will now only issue cold weather advisories and extreme cold watches and warnings in an effort to clear up public confusion.

The National Weather Service has consolidated and renamed various winter weather alerts. This file photo from Jan. 11, 2022, shows a frozen Lemon Creek on a cold morning as temperatures dipped to ...

Wind chill watches, warnings get new names from National Weather Service Extreme cold watch and extreme cold warning replaced wind chill watch and wind chill warning Oct. 1, 2024.

Beginning Oct. 1, the National Weather Service made the following changes to wind chill watches, warnings and advisory: Wind chill watches were renamed to extreme cold watch.

As we move into the coldest part of the year, the National Weather Service is changing the way it alerts for extreme cold weather.