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Laguidao - Harlette. BSEd. Sciences - The Science Behind The Great Smog
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in 1966, the layer of smog that hung above
New York City killed about 200 people reat Smog of London, le- This temperature inversion
(Cohen, 2017). thal smog that covered the city prevented the emission from power
of London for five days (December 5– plants, industrial factories and
9) in 1952, caused by a combination of household to be released into the
industrial pollution and high- atmosphere which were trapped
pressure weather conditions. This com- near ground level and made the
bination of smoke and fog brought the worst pollution-based fog across the
city to a near standstill and resulted in city.
thousands of deaths (Martinez, 2019).
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The National Weather Service's wind chill chart, expressed in degrees Fahrenheit and miles per
hour. (NWS / NOAA) Accessed from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-wind-
chill-and-how-does-it-affect-human-body-180971376/
(b) Under the conditions listed in (a) above, explain why an ordinary thermometer would measure a temperature of
5°F and not a much lower temperature.
In the given situation where the wind is blowing at 30 mi/hr and the air temperature measured in an ordinary ther-
mometer is 5°F and not at a much lower temperature because even though the wind chill equivalent is at a much lower
measurement which is from the given situation is at -19°F it does not mean that the air temperature will also be lower.
This is because an ordinary thermometer is designed only to measure the air temperature or the actual temperature of the
air. On the other hand, the wind chill index is based on what temperature is being perceived by our skin or what we call
sensible temperature which depends on the blowing of the wind – the faster the wind blows, the greater the heat loss, thus
the colder we feel.
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B SE D SC IEN CE S 3 A