Just like our friends back east put up with summer heat and humidity, we get battered with a life threatening combination of extreme winter cold and wind.
Wind chill is a measure of heat loss due to the wind and cold.
Hypothermia and frostbite are two consequences of wind chill. Hypothermia, which is a dangerously low body temperature, is the most common weather killer in winter. It really does not take very cold weather to cause hypothermia if you are improperly dressed. In fact, many hypothermia deaths occur with temperatures between 30 and 50 degrees. If you or your clothing are wet, then hypothermia becomes even more likely.