Thought I'd chime in here with personal experience garnered from this past
weekend of curling. Yours truly was sweeping ice in 30F wearing a t-shirt
and sweating. I had taken off my Polartek (R) pullover as my wife was
complaining of the _ice_ that was forming on my back. No wind chill (except
when sliding around) You do chill when you stop.
Peter C
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At 09:49 AM 1/17/2000 , Richard Shipman wrote:
>Good point. The more work you do, the more energy you dissipate as heat.
>Since your body will try to maintain it's temperature at 98.6 degrees, as
>soon as you generate heat faster than your skin can dissapate it, you will
>begin to sweat. Usually, when you shovel snow, you are bundled up with
>winter clothes and believe it or not, the temperature of the air under the
>clothes has risen to above 98.6 degrees when you start to sweat... removing
>your winter coat will allow the heat to escape and the sweating will stop.
>
>Richard
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>At 10:26 AM 1/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hmmm, I sweat mightily sometimes when the ambient temperature is far below
>that
>>of my body. I can work up a good sweat shoveling that white stuff that falls
>>from the sky around here when the ambient is below 32 F.
>>
>>Rick
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