The part that bugs me with all this polar vortex panic is that the news is reporting the wind chill adjusted temperature as THE temperature, and everyone around me is quoting it as THE temperature as well. Which is total hooey and bordering on irresponsible because wind doesn’t always move at the exact same speed and will put the experienced conditions somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
Normally I don’t care if the news because hey it gives people something to talk about over the water cooler. But when vast swaths of the office refuse to come to work “because it’s 30 below!!” it makes my life harder and costs businesses money.
