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#82512 02/02/11 05:17 AM
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Hi Wonder if this is a concern if you have a jacket on?

Doug Sr #82513 02/02/11 06:12 AM
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Yeah, it's tough to consider something science when the explanation starts out....."feels like"!

Doug Sr #82514 02/02/11 07:30 AM
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Guess it all depends on the jacket...and the wind chill factor. Like, if I was freezing at the trailhead in my best jacket kinda thing...oh maybe glove liners

Tracie B #82519 02/02/11 02:23 PM
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Well, I was wondering why the heck I was feeling so cold this winter, even though I don't think it's a really cold winter...

I stepped on the scale earlier this week and I'm about 8 pounds lighter than normal for this time of year.

Now I'm wondering if I'm sick, or something...

Richard P. #82526 02/02/11 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted By Richard P.

Now I'm wondering if I'm sick, or something...


Richard, perhaps you just have a tape worm... eek

Doug, I kind of like this explanation of wind chill:

"The human body loses heat largely by evaporation and convection. The rate of heat loss by a surface depends on the wind speed above that surface: the faster the wind speed, the more readily the surface cools. For inanimate objects, the effect of wind chill is to reduce any warmer objects to the ambient temperature more quickly. It cannot, however, reduce the temperature of these objects below the ambient temperature, no matter how great the wind velocity. For most biological organisms, the physiological response is to maintain surface temperature in an acceptable range so as to avoid adverse effects. Thus, the attempt to maintain a given surface temperature in an environment of faster heat loss results in both the perception of lower temperatures and an actual greater heat loss increasing the risk of adverse effects such as frostbite and death."


Richard P. #82527 02/02/11 07:06 PM
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Richard:

Last summer you commented that you had gained a bit of weight. Now you've lost a bunch. Maybe your Cheetos wholesaler slipped you a few cases of reduced fat Cheetos.

Doug Sr #82567 02/04/11 02:55 AM
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Doug, more than you want to know here:

http://www.weather.gov/os/windchill/windchillglossary.shtml

John

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Hi Thanks This is a pet topic of mine. I have always felt stay covered, block the heat loss and wind chill is a study of not having the right outer layers or enough layers of very simple silk, wool, and down and well you know the Cotton t shirt and Jeans for dress trips. Thanks Doug

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Originally Posted By Doug Sr
. . . and well you know the Cotton t shirt and Jeans for dress trips. Thanks Doug


Wouldn't that be "Mt. Whitney" cotton tee and jeans? It's what the well-dressed mountaineer wears these days.

bulldog34 #82595 02/06/11 03:49 AM
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Hard to tell from this photo, but every once-in-a-while, I follow Doug's advice. (I'm wearing jeans.)


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