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

What you « feel » is not heat, but heat transfer. The faster the heat transfer, the « hotter » something feels, up until it starts damaging your skin where it isnt registering as heat but rather pain.

A thermometer cannot measure heat transfer rate, because it is essentially the same temperature as its environment.