Have you ever wondered if/how the Windchill Factor effects your outdoor garden plants? Let’s find out!
Windchill Calculators:
Canada: https://weather.gc.ca/windchill/wind_chill_e.html
USA: https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
VIDEO: Does the Windchill Factor affect Outdoor Garden Plants?
Have you ever wondered if/how the Windchill Factor effects your outdoor garden plants? Let’s find out!
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I thought wind chill was (at least in part) a function of evaporative cooling; which would affect plants.
Thank you very much for this explanation! I can now explain it better when someone will ask the question during planting season (temperature of 10, feeling 0 – will it kill the plant). I envy your graphic capability! Your videos are always wonderful!
Actually, I was just thinking about wind chill affecting plants about a week ago. Then I remembered a bit of high school science about kinetic energy and heat transfer and quickly realized, wind chill would not effect an outdoor plant. The same way it does not affect an inanimate object, like my car, as your video so eloquently illustrated.
The wind chill can effect plants in my insulated cold frame, not the plants directly, just the cold frame. The wind will accelerate the heat loss of the cold frame as it did your cup of grass tea.
As always, another well planned and informative video.
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Thanks for your work on that helpful video. Suggestion: Have a look at "Forstbite" around 7:40.
Thank you so much!! This just helped so much cause I was worried about the -40F windchill we just got yesterday
I think one part that might affect plants is that the wind causes an increase in evaporation. That in combination with sun exposure and freezing temperatures makes it more likely for a plant to get winter burn because dehydrated plants fair worse in freezing temperatures.
O I get it!!!! Always wondered how it was figured. I always learn so much from you–and you make it fun, too! Is teaching your day job?
I'm a chemist ,.and so im a overly verbose nerd at times., over the years, I've tried explaining wind chill to my non technical wife, and it just ends up irritating us both.
Next time she's arguing that wind chill affects our saplings, I'll have her watch this video. VERY well done
for a year or two around 1990 when I was living in Nipigon, the wind chill was expressed as watts per square meter (at least on CBC radio in Thunder Bay). It made sense to me but I guess the non tech mind had trouble with it since they stopped expressing it that way.
Great video. Very educational and well put together. Alot of this I knew but as separate nuggets of knowledge. It was great watching this video and have you put all these pieces together in an interesting way. Thanks!
My mom has been very confused about windchill. Claiming it would affect the cars. I think this video would be helpful for her. Very clear. I knew about the general concepts, but now I understand them better. Thank you. Your presentation was excellent.
Very interesting, thanks for explaining that!
We always enjoy your videos, and I was extra happy to see you have the long gap from the last one.
I'm definitely going to try growing peaches from seed. Looking forward to more long form content!
Great video. May I ask, if plants don’t experience windchill, why do many garden experts advise us to put on a heavy mulch layer during winter and/or to wrap less hardy shrubs in burlap? Presumably the air within other mulch/burlap is at ambient temperature during the coldest parts of winter… is it to prevent desiccation?
Great video… I live in the Caribbean so no much worries, but is perfect
Really interesting !
In spanish we often use "thermal sensation" "Sensación térmica". It is not related to cold or hot as you said :3
And it can be affected by solar radiation or humidity.
To sum it up, the concept you don’t seem to get is that water loss always causes temperature loss and that it CAN make you get colder than the ambient temperature. You admit that wind can cause water loss, incorporating in this new concept, that means wind can cause temperature drops in plants as well. Plants are not rocks. They have water and “sweat” the same way we do (the complicated process is called transpiration) and that sweating can make them get colder in winds the same way it cools us off. It is controlled by the same wind factors that make up our wind chill amount. So no, the wind chill number will not be the same for a plant, but a super high wind chill for us will also be bad for a plant. Not as bad (they can control their sweat to a degree) but closing off their sweat mechanisms also closes off their ability to photosynthesize, so they’re going to be affected in several ways.
This video is so well done. I watched it with my kids to explain why it feels so much colder outside today.
Well done. You are very talented.
I feel like this was the most scientific presentation I've seen from you; however, most of your vids are remarkably well written with scientific findings and descriptions.