If you live in a cold-winter climate, the term “wind chill” is familiar to you. It is a measure of how cold the current combination of wind and air temperature will feel. Even if the morning temperature is not too cold, a chilly wind in the afternoon can create a dangerously cold wind chill effect. A gardener may wonder about the wind chill effect on plants. Do plants feel wind chill? Does the wind chill factor affect plants? The short answer to both these questions is no, but that doesn’t mean your plants are necessarily safe. Both cold wind and cold temperatures can damage garden plants even if they don’t react to the wind chill factor. What Is Wind Chill? How exactly does cold air create wind chill temperatures? Warm-blooded animals, including humans, exude sufficient heat to warm a thin layer of air around our bodies. Called the “boundary layer,” […]
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