Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: postmaster.DUNG_BEETLE@gateway.qm.apple.com (postmaster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Steve Winters :Unknown QM u Message-ID: <9101040605.AA05317@internal.apple.com> Date: 4 Jan 91 06:09:03 GMT Lines: 63 To: handhelds@gac.edu Return-path: To: handhelds@gac.edu Mail*Link#170# Steve Winters :Unknown QM u Received: by gateway.qm.apple.com; 3 Jan 91 22:09:01 Received: from apple.com by goofy.apple.com with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA05281; Thu, 3 Jan 91 22:04:39 -0800 for Steve_Winters.PERIPH_PROJ@gateway.qm.apple.com Received: from RELAY.CS.NET by apple.com with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA19267; Thu, 3 Jan 91 22:04:29 -0800 for Steve_Winters.PERIPH_PROJ@gateway.qm.apple.com Received: from relay2.cs.net by RELAY.CS.NET id ad02930; 3 Jan 91 15:06 EST Received: from [138.236.1.2] by RELAY.CS.NET id aa01262; 3 Jan 91 15:04 EST Date: Thu, 3 Jan 1991 09:03 CST From: handhelds@gac.edu Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index Sender: NEWSMGR@gacvx2.gac.edu To: HANDHELDS@gacvx2.gac.edu Errors-To: postmaster@gac.edu Reply-To: handhelds@gac.edu Message-Id: <624EF81E40000525@gacvx2.gac.edu> X-Vms-To: IN%"HANDHELDS@GACVX2.GAC.EDU" Comments: Forwarded from COMP.SYS.HANDHELDS by GACVX2.GAC.EDU Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site gacvx2.gac.edu Path: gacvx2.gac.edu!noc.MR.NET!uc!norge.unet.umn.edu!fin Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index Message-ID: <3237@uc.msc.umn.edu> From: fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) Date: 2 Jan 91 19:02:57 GMT Sender: news@uc.msc.umn.edu References: <15458@ogicse.ogi.edu> <2781f572:1544.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> Organization: Univ Netw Serv, Univ of Minn Lines: 29 In article <2781f572:1544.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) writes: >I am not much into thermodynamics and the like but I have always >wondered why nothing in this equation deals with the moisture >content of the air as well! Would that not affect the apparent >temperature (WCI)? Yes, it does, but so do many other factors. Besides, those of us who live in the colder areas (Minneapolis/St. Paul is warm for me) pretty much ignore the wind-chill numbers anyways. (Except for impressing our friends from down south. Personally, I find it much more impressive to say that if the air temperature is, say, -20 deg F so I can warm up by going into a freezer.) What factors do I use? More or less in order: - how long I am going to be outside, and where I'm going (putting out the garbage doesn't even rate a coat, regardless of temperature) - air temperature - amount of sun - type and amount of snowfall - wind speed, direction, gustiness, etc. - humidity (usually about 50% which equates to 5% or so when the air is warmed up) Craig A. Finseth fin@unet.umn.edu [CAF13] University Networking Services +1 612 624 3375 desk University of Minnesota +1 612 625 0006 problems 130 Lind Hall, 207 Church St SE +1 612 626 1002 FAX Minneapolis MN 55455-0134, U.S.A.