Some weather sites, like Yahoo! Weather for examle, give a "feels like" temp that's often much higher or lower than the actual temp. I'm wondering what it takes for water to freeze. If Yahoo reports that it's 35 degrees out, but that it feels like 26, will water freeze? Does the temp have to be below 32? Or just feel like it's below 32?
2007-01-14 13:28:14 · 6 answers · asked by maluba 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
The "Feels Like" temperature was developed or invented to explain how a real temperature feels to a human. Wind Chill as the winds enhance the cold air on the skin in the winter...and heat index in the summer to emphasize the humidity relative to the temperature and accentuating what's real.
These feels-like temps DO NOT affect inanimate objects. Their sole purpose was to give humans a warning on how extreme conditions can be. Water won't freeze when the wind chill is below 32, unless of course the temp is 32 or below. Of course, there can be discrepancies, when the wind blows across the water and can cool the water or displace the warm air and blah blah blah...that's deep scientific hooey I dont need to explain.
2007-01-14 13:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by Isles1015 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Feels like temperature is what the temperature feels like because of the wind. Water will only freeze when the "actual" temperature is @ or below 32 degrees F. The "feels like temperature" is otherwise know as windchill.
2007-01-14 13:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by tsu2defense 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Water will NEVER FREEZE if the air temperature is above freezing. No matter how windy it is. The Real Feel temperature is only for humans and animals and how you feel, not how cold you get. It gives you an idea of how quickly you get cold. Similarly you will never get frostbite if the air temperature is above freezing no matter how windy it is. Actually the air temperature has to be 25 F or lower because salt lowers the freezing point of human body's fluids.
2007-01-14 14:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Understand that wind can affect what the temperature feels like and why it's colder than actual. What I don't understand and wish someone could explain is how the real feel temperature can sometimes be 5 or more degrees higher than the actual temperature. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
2014-03-03 07:09:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No mater how much wind there is, it has to be at or below 32 degrees for water to freeze
2007-01-14 13:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by Ed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They invented Feels like , so you will get colder just thinking about it
2007-01-14 22:17:46 · answer #6 · answered by shufly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋