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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So here’s a fun semi related fact, but we can’t sense moisture. So liquids being wet for example. We just feel the temperature and pressure difference as well as the contact. So you can ‘feel’ it’s wet but really you’re just feeling how everything else has changed.

In a similar way, the thermometer only cares about the temperature. When you have wind, air pressures and moisture content to come into effect these translate a little into temperature feeling too, as well as things like the pressure.