Winter weather factor

Usage examples of windchill.

The only thing that kept them from marching to the city jail to demand the head of Leslie Olin Sewek was an inbred Minnesotan aversion to creating a spectacle and a windchill factor of sixty-two degrees below zero.

But when the windchill factor adds another fifty degrees to the temperature, the drastic frigidness can kill within a few short minutes.

It was showing an ambient temperature of minus eight degrees, but there was a biting near gale blowing in from the northeast that must have brought a windchill reading of nearer minus twenty-five.

Through the rest of the day and following night the intensity of the storm had slowly abated, but they were still exposed to a murderous windchill factor.

We plotted wind and temperature into a windchill factor on this one.

Outside, a stiff breeze sprang up, and the waiting perimeter of security forces cursed at the effect of the windchill factor in the damp cold and huddled into their parkas.

Their survival suits could barely cope with the nighttime temperature of seventy below, with a windchill factor nearing instant death.

Add in the windchill factor and you had a land where a man would be dead within minutes if he didn't have adequate thermal protection.

With the temperature at minus fourteen and the windchill factor pushing minus fifty, the lights, electric heat, and all phone and net service simply stopped.

With the windchill factor, the temperature must have been below zero.

He had dark blond hair and deep-set eyes and he seemed to carry his own windchill factor with him.