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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Wind can affect objects. That’s why you blow on food. If something is hotter or colder than the air around it, then blowing on it helps bring it closer to the temperature of the air. Blowing on cold things warms them up and blowing on warm things cools them down. But if you go outside and there is a rock sitting on the ground the same temperature as the air, then making a fan blow on it won’t do anything. If you blow 40 degree air against a 40 degree rock then both will just stay 40 degrees.

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