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Originally Posted by bennelson
The temperature was a high of 0 degrees F all week. The only difference on the day that it wouldn't start was that the car was much more exposed to the wind.
It's my theory that the wind just sucked the heat out of the car faster, to the point that it wouldn't start.
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Your theory is absolutely correct
I, perhaps a "purist" when it comes to technical definitions, just take issue (nothing personal) to calling it wind chill
When wind chill is reported - it's based off of us meat humanoids being in direct contact with said wind.... Unless your engine etc. is completely exposed - it will not have the same cooling effect magnitude.
I can't remember the quote exactly, but I agree... Confucius said something like 'Until we can define our words, we can not resolve our problems.' I'm botching the quote (I think the term "evil" appeared in there somewhere), but that's the general idea. Semantics, to me, is a big deal - the difference between hurt and kill is significant - even when someone calls semantics
