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  • noun meteorology The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed - as far as its cooling effect on exposed flesh is concerned

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Examples

  • As I write this one, it's once again 34F out there, though the windchill is only 27F.

    flim flam greygirlbeast 2010

  • As I write this one, it's once again 34F out there, though the windchill is only 27F.

    "No one understands, the way you found your god..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The Packers, on a day so cold that the windchill was the only factor, had Ray Nitschke, as well as Starr and Kramer and at least a half dozen others, remain household words.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • The Packers, on a day so cold that the windchill was the only factor, had Ray Nitschke, as well as Starr and Kramer and at least a half dozen others, remain household words.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • - 35C (windchill, which is what counts), snowing for the 10th day in a row, the city is incapable of clearing the roads, the Flames lost last night, and I broke two fingernails.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • No, it's not the fact that I actually heard the Miami weatherman use the phrase "windchill" when describing the temperature.

    unknown title 2009

  • No, it's not the fact that I actually heard the Miami weatherman use the phrase "windchill" when describing the temperature.

    unknown title 2009

  • Here in NW Ontario it was -22 C yesterday afternoon WITHOUT the windchill.

    Pro Clinic: Your Biggest Dog Training Mistakes 2009

  • Here in NW Ontario it was -22 C yesterday afternoon WITHOUT the windchill.

    Pro Clinic: Your Biggest Dog Training Mistakes 2009

  • But hey, the Giants won the NFC title in January 2008 when it was minus-3 and the windchill was minus-24.

    The Loss That Led to Wins Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012

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