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

Windchill affects everything that’s not the same temperature as the wind (and/everything that is wet/damp).

Wind increases the rate at which heat is transferred, however heat is only transferred when there’s a temperature gradient. A rock that’s been sitting outside and is exactly the same temperature as the air won’t “feel” cold.

So the rock in your example would be 10F.