The National Weather Service has warned that bitterly cold wind chills could result in hypothermia or frostbite.

It’s seems like we’ve had an unusual number of days with powerful winds this winter, even for a Minnesota winter.

but the wind chill quickly had larger numbers as the wind ramped up. Under the old formula, a zero-degree day with a light wind of 5 miles per hour was believed to feel like 5 below, now ...

Most of those publications use an old wind chill formula which produces numbers that are extremely low and inaccurate,” said Sabol. The wind chill formula changed in 2001 with updated research.” ...

The NWS uses computer modeling to "provide an accurate, understandable, and useful formula" to calculate wind chill. According to the NWS, the index calculates wind speed at five feet off the ...

The result was the wind chill formula we have in existence today. The new wind chill uses the wind speed at 5 feet, the average height of the human face instead of using anemometer wind speeds at ...