Does wind chill only affect living creatures?

Question

To rephrase, if a rock sits outside in 10F weather with -10F windchill, is the rock’s surface temperature 10F or -10F?

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Answer 1

I wanted to add something about *why* wind causes things to cool down faster.

Without wind, your body warms up the air that is touching it which reduces the difference in temperature. The greater the difference, the more heat your body loses. The lower the difference, the less heat you lose. Wind blows away that pocket of heated air, exposing your body to a greater temperature difference. The former situation is an example of conductive heating (or cooling I guess), while the latter is an example of convection.