Eli5: Why do they say windchill doesn’t affect objects yet fans are used for cooling?

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Basically title, you always hear “windchill only affects humans” but we use fans to cool things all the time?

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Windchill doesn’t affect objects that are already the same temperature as the air, it does affect objects that are the same temperature as a person.

Lets say the air is 20F, and the water of a pond is 35F. If there’s wind, the pond will freeze much faster.

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