Sioux Falls, SD — In the past, if the wind chill was going to get down to 20 below, the National Weather Service would have issued a Wind Chill Advisory. Well now that won’t be the case.
Andrew Kalin, a meteorologist with the Sioux Falls office of the National Weather Service tells us more.
Kalin says that offices to the south of our area will still use 20 below as their threshold for issuing a Wind Chill Advisory. He says it’s a regional thing.
He says since it happens more often up here, people who live in the northern areas are better equipped to handle low windchills and expect them more often. Weather Service officials say they are also doing this to reduce the number of advisories issued. They feel that will help show the public the severity of the issue when the windchills are expected to be quite low.
