How does a car measure the outside temperature at speed, without it skewing for windchill or engine/surface heat?
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Windchill is the effect of a warmer body losing heat to the colder air moving over it.
If you see “feels like XX temperature” that is also a similar reading of Windchill. The wind chill temperatures are included because it’s important for warm things, like the humans reading it planning what jacket to take with them or knowing how long they can be outside without their extremities freezing. Wind will not make a *dry* thermometer any colder than ambient temperature.
Thermometers have no internal heat source to be warmer than the ambient air, and as such have no issues with wind chill. They just equalize to the temperate of the air.
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