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Wind can make hot temperatures feel cooler and cool temperatures feel colder. This is the wind chill factor — how a wind makes the body feel that the air around it is colder. Wind chill can be an important indicator of the danger of severe cold winter conditions.

The warmth of the body actually creates a thin envelope of warm air around it, a little insulating comfort zone. Along comes the wind that whisks that envelope away, exposing the skin to the raw cold and accelerating the heat lost by the body. The stiffer the wind, the greater the heat loss, the colder the feeling of air.