After reading that a change was going to be made in the way we describe what winds can do to already-low temperatures, I got to thinking about how the words or phrase “wind chill” have already been replaced for the most part by the term “feels like.”
The term wind chill has its origins going all the way back to some of the early days of polar exploration, according to Ksat.com:
While on the coldest place on Earth (Antarctica), explorer Paul Siple and polar scientist Charles Passel, decided to conduct an experiment by observing 250 grams of water in different temperature and wind conditions. They had an anemometer mounted at the same level. They found that the faster the wind blew, the quicker the water turned to ice. When winds increase, heat is carried away from an object or body at a faster rate, driving down the temperature…