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Wind Chill

It was frigid again today in the Upper Midwest, with high temperatures in much North Dakota not even breaking zero degrees Fahrenheit. Sub-zero temperatures are formidable enough... but weather forecasters invariably follow the temperature with another, even scarier number -- the wind chill. One very cold day, we sent NPR's Joe Palca out to get the low down on wind chill.

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