Just saw on news that coldest was Antarctica -89 c so in comparison to that we are nearly tropical. Although the news said if you breathed the air at that point you would die.
Reminded me I usually put out few bags of corn for the deer and rabbits. I feel bad now.
Funny the only camera that failed was the pond one under the greenhouse cover with these extreme cold spell.
Wind chill is applicable to many mammals, unfortunately farm animals often feel the effects of wind chill more than animals in the wild as they may lack adequate shelter,or have no access to a natural wind barrier, conditions for these animals all depend on the farmer. When an animal has wet fur due to rain or snow that has melted, the thermal air layer provided by fur trapping warm air from their body is compromised, this means the animals body has to work a lot harder to regulate its temperature and the wind chill does make it harder on the animal. When temperatures take a plunge and the wind chill is low young animals can become susceptible to more illnesses, or can sometimes die. Sheep are normally the ones to fair better as their wool is waterproof. I think dogs and other animals have a sweat gland on their nose that expels water just like a human sweat gland, and pigs have sweat glands like other animals that have fur only the fur has been bred out of domesticated pigs, this may or may not be true I'm just not sure. Also every year some poor opossum living somewhere cold loses a bit of its tail to frostbite, it's very sad.
We got out of there right before the snow bomb, The captain announced bad winds coming, we were moving a bit before the flight time, but got in a line for de icing of the wings. Took off around 40 minutes later, without issue, a bit bumpy, but I am here and typing so we got here safe. Long day, started at 3am finally got to our place at 630pm.
Never knew this