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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Humans are very hot, about 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 centigrade. When outside in normal conditions your body loses heat constantly.
You feel wind chill because, as a very hot object, the faster fluids are moving around you (the air) the faster you lose heat. Moving air makes it ‘feel’ colder then it is (the wind chill factor).
It’s no colder though. Were you to die and stop producing heat while in an area with a high wind chill factor your body would cool to the ambient ‘real’ temperature, not the wind chill factor temperature. The same is true for objects outside. Wind makes them cool down to the ambient temperature faster, but won’t cool them bellow ambient.
This is the same way a convection oven or air fryer works. By having the air move quickly around the food heat moves into it quickly, but the air is no hotter then in a normal oven.
Edit: Food, not foot. Feet don’t belong in air fryers.
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