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- From: tmkst6+@pitt.edu (Theodore M Kostek)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
- Subject: question about 'apparent' temperature
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:18:55 GMT
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- All this talk about the ice cubes and classrooms has me wondering about
- a related problem. I'm only a 1st term junior, and haven't had
- any heat transfer classes, so I'm not sure if I have this right.
- My question concerns wind chill and relative humidity as they relate
- to the apparent temperature. When the weather report gives the temp with
- wind chill factor (ex 40, 20 with wind chill), are they saying that the heat
- transfer rate from your body is the same as if the air was 20 degrees but
- still? Similarly when it very humid, say 70 degrees but feels like 80, does
- this mean that the heat transfer rate is the same as if it were a lower
- humidty at 80 degrees?
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- Thanks for any help.
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- TEd
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