There’s the temp and then the “feels like” temp. If they are different, how does a thermometer read the real temp and not what it feels like, since it feels like the feels like temp?

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Answer 1

The thermometer just measures the average energy of all the molecules hitting it.

You are a lump of fatty meat getting signals from all over your bone mech, which is covered in meat and systems for circulating fluid and regulating temperature, among many other things.