A wind chill watch is issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when the wind chill could reach dangerous levels within the next 12 to 48 hours. The exact definition required to issue a watch varies from state to state or from National Weather Service county warning areas to another, but if forecasters believe conditions are favorable for life-threatening wind chills meeting local criteria, a watch will be issued. People going outside should plan to protect themselves against hypothermia and frostbite.[1]
^Glasgow, MT National Weather Service Forecast Office. "Winter Weather Watches, Warnings and Advisories". Montana Winter Weather Awareness Week. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
Environment Canada replaced the WindChill Warning with an Extreme Cold Warning. In the older system a windchill warning for Southern Ontario and Atlantic...
storm force, the hurricane watch and warnings are issued in advance of the anticipated onset of tropical-storm-force winds, rather than in advance of...
A windchill warning is a hazardous weather statement issued by local forecast offices of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States and previously...
A windchill advisory is a hazardous weather statement issued by Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States...
development, thunderstorms that develop within the watch area may contain large hail, straight-line winds, intense rainfall and/or flooding that pose a similar...
coverage to require a watch). While a severe thunderstorm watch does not nominally imply the probability for tornadoes, if modest wind shear and storm-level...
windbreaker, or a windcheater, is a thin fabric jacket designed to resist windchill and light rain, making it a lighter version of the jacket. It is usually...
weather warning or watch, this means that conditions for fire growth and behavior are extremely dangerous due to a combination of strong winds, very low humidity...
A hurricane force wind warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when sustained winds or frequent gusts of 64 knots...
in an event that maritime locations currently or imminently experiencing winds of gale force on the Beaufort scale. Gale warnings (and gale watches) allow...
IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SATURDAY. THE GALE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 10 TO 20 KNOTS WITH FREQUENT GUSTS...
front in winter. Visibility must be reduce to less than 500 m, wind over 40 km/h with a wind shift. Quantities of snow is not important with this type but...
2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022. "When a blue moon has more to do with the wind-chill factor". The Sunday Herald. 14 January 2001. Archived from the original...
strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface wind moving...
flood conditions are a possibility. In the United States, a flash flood watch is issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) when weather conditions...
An excessive heat watch is a notice issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when the heat index is expected to be greater than 105 °F...
known in the United States. A warning should not be confused with a tornado watch, issued in the United States by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and in...
States when winds between 48 knots (89 km/h, 55 mph) and 63 knots (117 km/h, 73 mph) are occurring or predicted to occur soon. The winds must not be associated...
heat index or windchill values expected to approach "advisory" criteria for one or two hours, or local areas of blowing dust where wind is below advisory...
above ground level), impairing the ability of the radars to provide accurate wind velocity and correlation coefficient data, with large hail being produced...
short duration (up to 2 hours) producing sustained marine thunderstorm winds or associated gusts of 34 knots or greater; or hail 3/4 inch or more in...
which are issued by the National Weather Service. One is a flash flood watch, which means that conditions are favorable for flash flooding, and the other...
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