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From: jcampbel@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Jim Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index: HEAT LOSS, NOT TEMPERATURE
Keywords: Wind Chill
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Date: 6 Feb 91 23:46:37 GMT
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At 0K, heat transfer happens by conduction (since the entire environment is
solid) NOT convection as is normally the case when considering wind chill.

Since conduction heat transfer is much more efficient than convection, a
wind chill of below 0K is pretty much meaningless.

I do not believe that Wind Chill Index would be a measure of anything when
it returns a value below absolute zero.