Because wind chill makes your skin and eventually your internal body temperature colder faster, the lower the wind chill the less time you have before frostbite or hypothermia set in.

The wind chill is how cold it feels to people and animals, but a thermometer reading in high and low wind chill conditions would be the same. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

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