Wind chill and humidity is what makes you feel like it's warmer or cooler than it is.

Seas: Around 1 metre, increasing to 1/1.5 metres in the northern bay. Here's the BOM: "If your clothing is wet, for example, wind chill can be more severe and your chance of hypothermia would be greater than indicated by the apparent temperature.". See weather overview.

When there is a lot of moisture in the air, the rate at which sweat can evaporate from [and cool] the skin is reduced," Ms Sturrock said. South to southeasterly about 10 knots inshore early morning.

South to southeasterly about 10 knots inshore early morning. In the south-east, Canungra had a low of minus 2.4 and Amberley shivered through minus 1.2.

Medium chance of showers during the morning and afternoon. We cannot change the weather, but we can plan our transport systems to be more resilient and better shield us from the weather when we travel. The weather bureau expects the chilly conditions to linger for the rest of the week before warming up early next week. Mr Marshall said it's like taking a drink can with condensation outside. There are quite a few different "feels like" models used around the world, with the AT index used by the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States. But BOM said in the tropics, there have been examples where the air temperature is 29C but it feels like 38C.
Meteorologist Kimba Wong said similar conditions were expected to linger throughout the week.

recorded their coldest morning of the year on Monday. In some ways it's similar to the existing formula but the point of difference is that the "Q" takes into account the net radiation absorbed per unit area of body surface (which is the impact of the sun).

The BOM says in summer, high humidity can make you feel warmer than it might actually be. BOM said the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which was developed in the 1950s, can also be used to measure temperature and humidity in a single number.

Wow you write like only the UK gets humidity at all yet you can’t seem to grasp that Brisbane and the north of Australia is quite close to the equator and receives those levels of humidity and temperatures consistently for half the year. But the one BOM uses doesn't take into account radiation from the sun.

"Effectively it attempts to quantify just how much hotter or how much colder it will feel for a person outdoors," meteorologist Matthew Marshall said. Brisbane for Friday:

Cool temperatures help ensure everyday food items like milk and meat maintain their shelf life and stay safe for you to eat. Humidity is measured by the "E", which looks at the water vapour pressure, while "WS" measures wind speed at an elevation of 10 metres.

La Trobe University academic Dr Robert Steadman helped develop the AT scale, based on how heat loss or gain — through blood flow, breathing and sweating — interact with the temperature and atmosphere. Dalby, more than 200 kilometres west of Brisbane, dropped to minus 4.8, while to the south of the River City, Ipswich hit minus 3.2 and Beaudesert recorded minus 2.9. news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site, Severe Storm Warning (Damaging Wind/Hail/Rain) Gulf Country, N Goldfields/U Flinders, Herbert/L Burdekin, Nth West, Cent West & Ch Country.

In central Queensland, Biloela dropped to minus 2 degrees, Morandah recorded 1.2, St Lawrence reached 3.2, Mackay Airport had a low of 4.1, Rockhampton went down to 4.6 and Bundaberg hit 5.1. It's also affected by wind and radiation and is often used in occupational health and safety guidelines for working in hot environments. But in humid conditions, the condensation takes a lot longer to evaporate. On Tuesday, in Moss Vale, NSW the temperature was 8.4C at 6:40pm but the "feels like" temperature was a cool -1.2C. "When we are hot, our bodies sweat to cool us down. Last updated today at 19:02. The BOM's senior meteorologist Jenny Sturrock explains in their video (see above) that it's because of wind blowing away the heat created from your body temperature: "You have a layer of warmer air around your body that can insulate you from cooler surrounding air [but] wind strips this layer away and allows you to feel more of the cold," she said.

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On Tuesday morning, the lowest actual temperature in the state was minus 5.6 degrees in Applethorpe, 140 kilometres south of Toowoomba near the NSW border.

In dry air, the condensation will evaporate pretty quickly.

But the WBGT provided by the Bureau is only an approximation — it assumes only light winds and fairly sunny conditions. The BOM has pointed out that the formula is not as rigorous as the meteorology it usually uses because it's based off how people feel.

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The warmest record-breaking area in the state was the north Queensland town of Bowen, which dropped to a low of only 6.5 degrees on Monday, but it was enough to tumble the previous record. Instead, it's estimated the "feels like" temperature can vary up to 8C if you're outdoors but not in the shade.

As for the -4.00, it's a correction term.

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The results help develop a more mathematical model of heat balance in the human body, which looks like this: To translate: AT is based on the actual temperature recorded (Ta), which involves using thermometers sheltered from the sun and wind in something called a "Stevenson screen", as well as the humidity and wind.

The chance of a thunderstorm in the W this afternoon.


And it's the same with when you sweat.

However, in terms of the "feels-like" temperatures, Dalby plummeted to minus 9 degrees, Wellcamp Airport hit minus 8.7, Oakey dropped to minus 8.6 and Applethorpe recorded minus 8.2. Quite a bit. Seas: Around 1 metre, increasing to 1/1.5 metres in the far north during the afternoon.