mem (07/19/82)
c I submitted an article wondering about wind-fry effect; from the one reply that I got (and lost the sender's address to, sorry), I see that I didn't present the subject completely (who cares, you say?). The thought that comes to mind first is that the air temperature would have to be above body temp. (about 98.6 F.) to have a wind-heating effect. But that ignores the body's cooling system. (Notice that a HOT hair dryer can feel cool on a wet head.) It seems actually true that the air would have to be hot enough, and the wind strong enough, that sweating wouldn't be worthwhile. I bet that for any temperature above body temperature and sweat-rate (varies individually) there is some minimum wind velocity past which sweat doesn't have a cooling effect. It was just a thought. Mark Mallett