Recently, I became thoroughly sick of hearing about “wind chill” and “real feel” temperatures. I learned enough about meteorology years ago, so that I understood that the wind chill refers to “wet bulb” temperature, and the real feel is another term for talking about that. Wet bulb temperature is the temperature measured with a thermometer that is wrapped with a wet cloth, so that the cooling due to evaporation is measured, in addition to the ambient air temperature. Dry bulb temperature is the ...
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