The Sun-Warmth Factor

Part of the premise of this blog is to occasionally come up with things that should be but aren't usually the opposite of something else. As an example, Gruntled is the opposite form of disgruntled, but we have never been actually provided the word.

So Friday, my wife and I were sitting on a chair lift at the old ski resort, when we noticed that unlike two days before, when the air temperature was warmer, and we felt colder because of something called the Wind-Chill Factor. The wind chill factor apparently didn't exist before the 1970's which meant we were ignorant about how cold it really was, until some smarty pants guy came up with a way to make -7 degrees to psychologically feel a lot colder!

Fortunately, in 2001 someone figured out an error with the old formula and came up with a new formula, which actually made it warmer than the old wind chill factors as seen in this pretty picture:



You'll notice that the combination of the red line and the blue line kind of form a little smirky smile that seems to tell us the joke has been on us, because for thirty years they fooled us into believing we were colder than we actually were.

So anyway, back to the chair lift. We were noticing that it was much warmer feeling on Friday, than it was on Wednesday even though the actual air temperature was about 20 degrees cooler than on Wednesday, because like 299 other days a year in Colorado, the sun was shining.

So it is our opinion that the Weather Scientists who unleashed the cruel joke of Wind-Chill Factor on us, have been withholding the corresponding opposite, which we immediately dubbed the Sun-Warmth Factor, which either partially or fully negates the wind-chill factor when the sun is shining, or even substantially warms us when there is little or no wind.

We demand that the US Weather Service start providing us with the Sun-Warmth Factor as a regular part of their forecasts, and stop trying to cover up the Sun's warmth on us.

And if no one has actually laid claim on something called the Sun-Warmth Factor, then we call DIBS!

Stay Gruntled AND Warm!