So I asked a friend who happens to be an engineer.
Question - are inanimate things like pipes affected by wind chill?
<C> Uhm...to varying degrees, yes.
<C> Materials change in accordance with temperature, and to the extent
evaporation cools the metal, it affects it. There are thresholds of
behavior, as with mild steel, where some grades of steel grow brittle and
take on new grades and forms of fracturability, loose ductility, and
therefore strength.
<C> Some alloys of steel are magnetic at one temperature but are not at
another
<C> Frozen pipes have additional factors at play, the expansion of the
volume of water as it gives up latent heat to form ice one of them.
Sandaidh
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