North Dakotans are proud of their wind chill. Given the latest bout of “American Made Global Warming” (ha), in the form of windy subzero temperatures, a couple of friends and I were having a discussion about the wind chill during our afternoon walk the other day. In 2001, the National Weather Service changed the method by which wind chills are calculated. This means that the wind chill temperatures we use to brag about our resilience will likely never be as cold as in years past.

According to this chart from NOAA, available in PDF format, it looks like we’ll never see those pride-inducing wind chill temperatures of old. Given the arbitrary +5F temperature of the above graphic, the windchill temperature derived from the old system at around 25mph would only be achieved with a wind of around 100mph! We don’t see too many of those winds around here, thankfully. All our snow would be in another state!

If you’re wondering why we never seem to see those ultra-cold wind chills our parents and grandparents brag about, that’s why. According to this article, the wind chill number was mostly used as a tool of exaggeration anyway. Given the way the media reports everything else, this should come as no surprise. And in light of the fact that climatologists have been caught using false data and putting temperature recording stations next to heat sources in order to get results favorable to the global warming agenda, we shouldn’t be surprised that some methodologies will change from time to time.