JoSH@RUTGERS.ARPA (01/25/84)
From: JoSH <JoSH@RUTGERS.ARPA> "Wind chill" is actually, of course, a measurement of heat loss through unprotected skin. McCormick in "Human Factors" gives a sensation scale in kilocalories per square meter per hour: "hot"= 80, "pleasant"=200, "cool"=400, "cold"=800, "bitter cold"=1200. He references Siple and Passel, Proc.Am.Phil.Soc v89p177 (1945). I have read in another source (I forget where) that temperatures, and wind chill equivalent temperatures, below -40 have little additional debilitating effect. I cannot confirm this, however. --JoSH -------
seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) (02/03/84)
> I have read in another source (I forget where) that temperatures, > and wind chill equivalent temperatures, below -40 have little > additional debilitating effect. Well, having spent several winters in the frozen tundra (Purdue, Naperville), I would say there's a significant difference between -40F and -80F. And then there was that one day during the winter of '78 that must have been -120! dreaming of Florida, -- _____ /_____\ from the flying doghouse of /_______\ Snoopy |___| ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert