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Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 01:12 PM

Jan 2019

It determined whether, when I go out to feel the bird feeders and add water for the heated dish, I need to just throw a vest, or but the heavy coat.

Will be close to 40 Saturday. Won't surprise me to see many with shorts and T-shirts..

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Windchill has no effect on inanimate objects. Atman Jan 2019 #1

How about just cold weather? question everything Jan 2019 #2

They do, but it usually doesn't matter how quickly they cool down. LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #5

I was watching the birds at our feeders. Ohiogal Jan 2019 #3

I filled up the feeders yesterday and the birds are on them, The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #13

The original calculations were based on how quckly bags of water would freeze, LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #4

-7 right now in my far northwest Chicago, with a windchill... 3catwoman3 Jan 2019 #6

I'm a pediatric hospice nurse in Chicago. We are on "code white" tomorrow which means mucifer Jan 2019 #8

I have only 3catwoman3 Jan 2019 #9

The National Weather Service changed the formula in 2001. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #7

Thanks, interesting question everything Jan 2019 #12

Outdoor work of any kind will be horrible at these temperatures dragonlady Jan 2019 #10

Those that have to do it are prepared. Scruffy1 Jan 2019 #11