Posted on 09/09/2016 10:10:27 PM PDT by RogerEsq
“Current temperature 95 degrees,” the weather man said, and hastened to add, “but it feels like a hundred and five.” Immediately I stood up. The time had come to test a longstanding hypothesis.
I packed a winter coat, hat, and gloves; a notepad; and a No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil. With these things in hand, and my three-in-one thermometer-compass-magnifier keychain survival tool, I headed for the door.
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Feels like sex and candy to me.
Feels like totalitarianism to me...
Never minding humor, I have been deceived by these “feels like” reports into thinking that it was much hotter outside than it was. It’s no accident!
Sounds like a banned lyric from the 50s.
Bttt.
That's great when you're young, but the older I get, the less interest I have in candy.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, I grimly recall the dire warnings associated with wind chills approaching minus 60, as in “exposed flesh freezes in 60 seconds”.One rapidly develops a precise aversion to losing consciousness outdoors
The author COMPLETELY mis-understands the heat index and wind chill index. In order to feel comfortable when the temperature deviates from normal, the human body attempts to compensate. It sweats when it’s hot, and it sends more blood to surface vessels when it’s cold. The wind when it’s cold, and the humidity when it’s hot changes the effectiveness of these body reactions. The indices attempt to measure these effects, not the actual temperature. The actual temperature doesn’t change at all.
SEVERE!
Like a three-year-old jumping up and down going “Look at me! Look at me!”
I actually experienced that. In college, I attended swimming team practice at 6:30 every morning. The pool was only a short run across the athletic field from my house. I would dress lightly, and run to the pool in order to catch a few extra minutes of sleep. One morning, the temperature was -30, and the wind chill about -60. In the short run, I froze my ear on the windward side. It was quite an experience to hit the pool with a still frozen ear. It took years to regain normal feeling in the ear.
When I was in Alaska, it was -60 and they said with wind chill, it was -140. At some point, I couldn’t tell the difference. Even Fahrenheit and Celsius agree, since they cross at -40.
Here in Florida, it is hot and humid, some days being more so. Personally, I’m in favor of global warming. Cold sucks.
Who’s that lounging In my chair?
As an American living in Canada, I was usually informed of the temperature in degrees Celsius. I had to perform the mental gymnastics of converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit before I knew how to feel.
Better read it more carefully. The author is obviously well aware of the pseudoscience behind “apparent temperature.” Keep thinking. You missed the point.
lol yeah
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