Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Weather Research

To help us understand better what cloths we need to pack, we use two tools. First the National Weather Service website which is a site great to find temperature trends and averages. Then we used the following formula to calculate our wind chill on our bikes:


Windchill (ºF) = 35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75(V^0.16) + 0.4275T(V^0.16)

Where: T = Air Temperature (F)
V = Wind Speed (mph)
^ = raised to a power (exponential)

Windchill Temperature is only defined for temperatures at or below 50 degrees F and wind speeds above 3 mph. Bright sunshine may increase the wind chill temperature by 10 to 18 degrees F.

quoted from weather.gov



Here is a calculator using that formula to calculate your wind chill: