Large parts of Australia have woken to their coldest morning of the year over the last two days, and the 'feels-like' temperature has been even more chilly. Here's why.
Large parts of Australia's east have woken to their coldest morning of the year in the past two days, as icy weather continues to blast the country ahead of the winter solstice .
In New South Wales' Tablelands, Glen Innes had an actual temperature of minus 4C but a 'feels-like' temperature of minus 8C. "So the reason that it was actually colder in the Snowy Mountains , but felt colder on the Victorian side, was that there was a moderate breeze at Mount Hotham, whereas the other two had only a light breeze," Ms House said.This is because it speeds up heat loss through a process called convection, by whisking away the warm layer of air that sits just above the skin, according to Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney.
To try and describe this human response to temperature, the BOM uses a measure called the apparent temperature — also known as the 'feels-like' temperature.
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