How is wind chill calculated? The NWS uses computer modeling to "provide an accurate, understandable, and useful formula" to calculate wind chill.

Wind chill formula Scientists have studied how wind affects our skin, and this formula is based on those studies. So, when you see a certain temperature and wind speed, the wind chill tells you ...

Thursday started off brutally cold in Chicago, with wind chills dipping below zero, but what exactly does that mean and how is it calculated?

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.

The original wind chill formula was developed by the U.S. military during the 1950s for Arctic maneuvers in Alaska. Their science was hastily done and the values it gave were ridiculously low.

Our First Alert weather headlines this week features extreme cold, with the lowest wind chills since Valentine’s Day 2016. Other than hearing what it will feel like, we thought this would be an ...

How is wind chill calculated? The NWS uses computer modeling to "provide an accurate, understandable, and useful formula" to calculate wind chill. According to the NWS, the index calculates wind ...

Most of those publications use an old wind chill formula which produces numbers that are extremely low and inaccurate,” said Sabol. The wind chill formula changed in 2001 with updated research.” ...

It makes sense. Despite being around since the 1940s when the wind chill formula was developed by two Antarctic explorers, people really don’t entirely understand what wind chill is.

Weather Wednesday: wind chills In this Weather Wednesday we look into how the term 'wind chill' came to be and how it has evolved since then.

According to the National Weather Service in State College, wind chill could lower the "feels like" temperatures into an uncomfortable range.