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Originally Posted by lio45
Are you guys really arguing that of the following three possible weather reports, your favorite, all things considered, is not the third?
"-15C and extremely windy"
"-15C with 62 km/h winds"
"-15C feels like -28C"
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I prefer the first. I know that sounds crazy, but the reason for that is that every day the actual temperature and "feels like" are different, to the point that I don't know what the "feels like" value actually feels like! As in, you say it feels like -28C with the windchill, but when the temperature actually is -28, you say it feels like -35. So how am I supposed to know how to prepare for a "feels like" of anything?
Instead, I've just learned through lived experience how to dress for different actual temperatures, and making adjustments for wind/cloud cover by that experience. When I see -15C, I know more or less what that will feel like still, with wind, with sun, etc. When you put a second number there, I honestly just get confused. But I always dress according to the first one, and I can't say it's failed me.