Before And After.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Glatt and Shawnee
Repeat after me: When the weather's hot and sticky...
The reason it can feel warmer than the actual temp has to do with standing in the sun, no wind, and dry air. moisture in the air allows heat to move to cold more easily, the sun adds radiant heat, and no wind also slows the transfer of heat toward cold. Heat=you, cold=them.

Along the lines of "I know how to read" I also understand the concept of humdity, and wind, and sun. I've actually lived on this earth a few years. In Ohio, no less.

Originally Posted by glatt

Yeah, OK, I buy that, but then the RealFeel only works if you happen to be standing in the sun.

With wind chill, the damn cold wind goes everywhere. Even if you step behind a building it blows around and gets you.

Yeah, what he said.

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

We can't stand for Shawnee to be in pain...not complete relief, but here's a child's aspirin

WSJ
Feeling More Freezing Than the Temperature

THanks lamp.

So I do get it now. RealFeel® isn't anything like wind chill. Wind chill, though kind of stupid, is an actual scientific number using the actual temperature and what the temperature feels like when the wind is blowing at 30 mph. Maybe not the most valid measure in the world, but I get the concept...having lived in wind chills. (Humidity is a silly thing to even bring into the discussion at 10 degrees.)

RealFeel® is something stupid some weather people made up as a marketing ploy. That's why it's copyrighted. "Hey, watch OUR BROADCAST...we know how you REALLY feel, when you're standing in the sun and behind a snowbank with your kid's pup-tent hanging on the clothesline and with the wind at 23 mph."

I do feel better!

edit: And another thing: I can get why 10 degrees vs. -3 degrees could matter. Who really cares if, instead of minus 15, it feels like minus 11?

Poppycock I say! Poppy! Cock!

I said "Good Day!"