Thursday started off brutally cold in Chicago, with wind chills dipping below zero, but what exactly does that mean and how is it calculated? A wind chill is the "measure of how cold the air feels on ...
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 wind blowing. It ...
Sometimes, it’s nice to know how windy it is outside. Knowing the direction of the wind can be a plus, too. To that end, [Sebastian Sokołowski] built himself an unusual anemometer—a wind gauge—to feed ...
When we experience extreme weather, such as Storm Floris recently, it's understandable that interest in weather records increases. However, in order to fully understand how records are recorded or ...