Wind Chill is a mysterious and often misunderstood phenomenon. This script describes what the wind chill factor really is and offers a form to calculate the wind chill factor when given the air temperature and wind speed.
Wind Chill:
A measure of the cooling effect of wind. Wind increases the rate at which a body loses heat, so the air on a windy day feels cooler than the temperature indicated by a thermometer. This heat loss can be calculated for various combinations of wind speed and air temperature and then converted to a wind chill equivalent temperature (or wind chill factor).
Wind Speed (MPH) =
Air Temperature (ºF) =
º F
JavaScript Source Code 3000: Calculators: Wind Chill Calculator Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Apple-s). The script is yours!!!
<!-- TWO STEPS TO INSTALL WIND CHILL CALCULATOR:
1. Copy the coding into the HEAD of your HTML document 2. Add the last code into the BODY of your HTML document -->
<!-- STEP ONE: Paste this code into the HEAD of your HTML document -->
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Original: James P. Dildine (jpd@wlsmail.com) --> <!-- Web Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/dildine -->
<! > <! >
<!-- Begin function windChill(form) { wind=eval(form.wind.value); temp=eval(form.temp.value); chill=(0.0817*(3.71*(Math.pow(wind, 0.5))+ 5.81-0.25*wind)*(temp-91.4)+91.4); form.windchill.value = chill; } // End --> </script> </HEAD>
<!-- STEP TWO: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML document -->