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Windchill factor approximates how cold it feels on your skin. Wind doesn't actually lower the temperature. -10 degrees is -10 degrees with or without wind as far as its effect on inanimate objects.So if its -10 degree's out side - and you are hauling 55 mph - whats the windchill factor on the tanks.
I know if you lick your finger and then stick it out the window it will freeze quicker.
When you lick your finger and then put it in the wind, you're feeling the effects of evaporative cooling. As the liquid evaporates in the breeze, it takes heat with it causing your finger to feel cooler.
Evaporative cooling can cool an object to be be colder than the ambient air temperature, but only if there is a steady supply of just the right amount of moisture and continuous evaporation. Otherwise, once an object has reached the same temperature as the ambient air temp, wind won't make it any colder.