Blame Canada

Canadians are always going on about 'wind chill'. "It's minus 10 outside, but minus 20 with the wind chill." In other words, the wind makes the weather colder than the thermometer says it is. I always thought this was melodramatic guff (how could the weather be colder than it really is?) and a way of weather forecasters making headlines, and this article says I'm right:

http://www.slate.com/id/2159370/?GT1=9129

As well as scrapping the wind chill, we should also lose the 'humidex'. This is the opposite of wind chill, saying the weather is hotter than it really is because of the humidity. More lame hysteria from a country that thinks it's living in the Arctic/Sahara (depending on the season) but is actually more like Maine. And while we're at it, let's get rid of the constant storm warnings! So there's going to be lots of snow - big deal! This is Canada! If you want less dramatic weather, move to England and live in perpetual drizzle.