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I wore my winter parka and boots for the first time this year tonight and felt sorry for the people I saw in line to enter a location ( which only serves to validate many of my previous points on other threads but I digress). I am hoping to retire them for the rest of the season after Christmas.

No matter how you try to slice it-windchill feels like numbers are not a Temperature .

Not as cold as forecast. It really isn’t that bad outside this morning as long as you dress properly.

I agree. This is a pet peeve of mine. It so much seems that the "weatherman" in recent years has used windchill numbers to sensationalize the extremes we can get. If a person is going to quote windcill numbers, a better understanding of our true weather conditions would result if the "weatherman" started out with the actual temerature and then added the winchill information.. Windchill is an important factor when deciding what should be worn if going outside but it shouldn't lead the story, unless the desired effect is to add unneeded drama to a forecast.