You know how sometimes you’ll open up a weather app and it’ll say that it’s 80°F, feels like 92°F, or when it’s super cold it’ll say 10°F, feels like -2°F?
How do they determine what a certain temperature feels like? Is it based on humidity, wind, or pressure? I figured that ‘feels like’ would be more subjective, which is why I’m always confused when it says that.
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It depends on wind and, to a lesser extent, humidity. There are several formulas to do it, here’s one that works just on wind: [https://www.lenntech.com/calculators/wind/wind-chill.htm#:~:text=To%20calculate%20the%20wind%20chill%20temperature%2C%20we%20use,this%20formula%20does%20not%20give%20very%20reliable%20results](https://www.lenntech.com/calculators/wind/wind-chill.htm#:~:text=To%20calculate%20the%20wind%20chill%20temperature%2C%20we%20use,this%20formula%20does%20not%20give%20very%20reliable%20results).
Humans don’t actually sense temperature, we sense how fast heat is entering/leaving us. When it’s cold, heat leaves us faster. When it’s windy, heat also leaves us faster, so it feels colder than the true air temperature.
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