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My choice of search words is horrible...I tried and failed...I'm sure this is a common issue...sorry for the thread...but...
It has been cold here...sub 37°F and when my wife gets in the car which is parked in the garage...and heads out...the digital display on the tach is set to show 'mph'...BUT after a small distance there is an audible 'DING' and the display switches to the outside temp and it FLASHES 37 or whatever the outside temp is...what gives?
Sure Mark, I had my first bing last week. A couple years ago it was down to 12 degrees for almost two weeks. It gets cold here in this part of the Gulf Coast. I was it Tampa once when it snowed. Many years ago and didn't stay around long, but we had snow.
I thought so, but just wanted to state the actuall temp you should hear the bing at. As crappie_fisherman said in his first post, it would bing at 37 degrees.
Or 3 Celsius as Poco does. Ruby has local county dog tags, I have a greencard on the way, but even though Poco has Missouri plates, he refuses to display temps in F, or MPH, and he shows 143+k kilometres
Ice can form on road surfaces at temps above freezing because of windchill factors.
Mark
Is that true? I thought windchill only simulated the equivalent temperature as felt on the skin, not how it'd physically affect structures. My understanding of wind chill (which may be flawwed) is that it could be -40 with windchill, but structures (or puddles) would measure (and feel) the ambient temperature.
Wind, not wind chill would be correct. Wind chill is how a temperature "feels" when wind is factored in. So, 30 degrees with 10 mph wind may "feel" like 20.