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Well I'm having a debate with a few friends of mine as to whether reptiles are affected by windchill. Right now we basically have two sides to the debate A) Reptiles are affected by windchill so you need to take that into consideration when you take your reptiles outside and B) Reptiles lack the ability to feel the windchill so as long as the base temperature is at an acceptable level the windchill has no effect on the reptiles. I'm preferrably looking for some hard facts that I can show to my friends to prove that Reptiles can indeed feel windchill, I've already been able to find out that gators and crocs can feel the windchill but I want to confirm that snakes and lizards are affected as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Cool air moving across a warm object will cool it. Snakes aren't exempt from physics.

Now if you get your snake a nice winter coat, this would no longer be the case.

seems to me, you take your snake outside when it's 30 degrees but feels like 8 degrees...your snake is gonna be COLD. Here's a better solution that solves the whole problem, don't have reptiles anywhere they'll be affected by wind chill.

I wish that were possible and that it was that easy but on top of this being a debate among friends this is a debate for the place I work as well. I'm not going to name where exactly where I work but it involves having reptiles outside to show to people if weather permits, hence the discussion as to whether to take into account wind chill or not.
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Oh, cool. Well I still stand by the idea that if wind chill is a factor, reptiles shouldn't even be part of the equation. Could very likely be asking for trouble.

Wind lowers the temperature of everything. Temperature moves from warmer to cooler things, the air included. If constant cool air is being blown on an object, it will continue to cool it. Yes, wind chill affects snakes.

From what I understand wind chill is the estimated temperature due to heat loss from forced convection. The wind diffuses away heat at a faster rate than static air.
Snakes will experience the same effects as people do, except they don't produce their own heat and they may have different coefficients of heat transfer.
The bottom line is snakes will lose heat faster in windy conditions.

I'm an engineering student. I have equations.