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Wyoming Braces for Dangerous Windchills Up to -45 Can Cause Frostbite in Minutes (cowboystatedaily.com)
19 points by Bender 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



-45F is pretty cold. Last weekend in southwestern North Dakota windchill temps were down in the -70F range. It's -51F in my hometown in northern ND right now.

An interesting tidbit was that with the -70F in ND and it being 92F in Miami at the same time there was a 162 degree temp difference in lower 48 states.


I see that the title from that U.S. site does not specify the wind chill in fahrenheit, but that's okay because at -45 it is about -42C, so almost equally brutal and not worth quibbling about when survival is at stake, especially if you have to take off your gloves and boots to count with your digits. It's a more likely wind chill for circumpolar and northernmost areas.

Wind chill explained:

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...




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