Feels Like Temperature: What It Really Means and How It's Calculated

Measuring actual temperature consists of recording the air temperature from a thermometer that has been kept inside a Stevenson screen or by using any other appropriate instrument. “Feels like temperature,” on the other hand, is a calculated figure that considers several different factors apart from the temperature of the surrounding air. It gives people a better understanding of how they would feel if they actually went out in an area where the temperature had been recorded by a specific meteorological instrument. The other factors taken into account by the “feels like temperature” are the speed and strength of wind, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity of the area, and the rate of heat loss from a human body when covered in clothes. When we combine all these factors and the measured temperature of the surrounding area, the final result is the so-called “feels like temperature.”