why does it sometimes show the temperature outside is 5° but Feels like 1°. Isn’t the actual temperature supposed to be what it’s feeling like? What’s the whole purpose of having that 5° there then
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The temperature is the true measurement of how hot the air is. So put an object in the air and it will reach that temperature. If it is cooler it will heat up and if it it warmer it will cool down. It do not happen direct but take time.
The feels-like temperature is a measurement of how good the air is in heating up or cooling down a human. So if you have “5° but Feels like 1°” you have a wind that causes the 5° air to cool you down like 1° non-moving air.
When air cools you down you heat it up, so the air around you is slightly warmer and wind will replace that air with other air that is cooler. More wind will also penetrate clothes more and replace hot ait that is trapped there with cooler
The feels-like temperature is for a human in some specific clothing. If you are out naked then “5° but Feels like 1°” do not apply because the wind will make you lose heat faster if you do not have clothes that block it.
The feels likes do not have an effect on the final temperature. If you are out long enough at 5° but Feels like 1° your body temperature will end up at 5°. You will at this point be dead.
In the same way, if you leave water out at a temperature just above freezing but the feels like the temperature is below freezing the water will not freeze. It will reach the air temperature faster if there is wind but the wind does not change the final temperature.
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