I hate this now omnipresent meteorological statistic: wind chill.
It is not a measure of objective data: it is supposed to tell you how cold you will "feel". Weather as subjective experience. Climate as emotion.
Bah ... I'll tell you how I feel : I feel like throwing my mercury thermometer at the television every time some smiling, attractive weather person tells me how cold the wind chill is. Give me precise, rationalistic measurements not namby, pamby ... ooooh, it is gonna be cold out there ... it will feel like its 389 degrees below zero.
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I rant about this so much my wife forbids me to speak of it. I told her that if I were ever elected to the legislature, I would make it a crime to report "wind chill" and "heat index."
"It's 29 degrees outside, but the 20 MPH wind will make it feel like fifteen degrees."
No, it won't. It will feel like 29 degrees with a 20 MPH wind. Fifteen degrees feels different entirely.
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