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Title: "Feels like"
Post by: WXman on January 30, 2019, 09:42:59 PM
Last night my color console showed ambient = 19, wind chill = 20, feels like = 12.   :roll:

How can the wind chill be higher than ambient, on a January night with a breeze?

How is the "feels like" temp calculated?  Proprietary formula I suppose?  It seems WAY different from wind chill most of the time.
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: CW2274 on January 30, 2019, 09:49:24 PM
feels like = 12.   :roll:
Didn't even know there was such a calc. All I have is wind chill and heat index.
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: Mirwin275 on January 30, 2019, 11:04:38 PM
Last night my color console showed ambient = 19, wind chill = 20, feels like = 12.   :roll:

How can the wind chill be higher than ambient, on a January night with a breeze?

How is the "feels like" temp calculated?  Proprietary formula I suppose?  It seems WAY different from wind chill most of the time.

Here are a couple links that may be helpful. I just did a quick search:

www.google.com/amp/s/whnt.com/2015/01/07/wind-chill-vs-feels-like-temperature-whats-the-difference/amp/   

www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_windchill
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: daman on January 31, 2019, 10:43:54 AM
Last night my color console showed ambient = 19, wind chill = 20, feels like = 12.   :roll:

How can the wind chill be higher than ambient, on a January night with a breeze?

How is the "feels like" temp calculated?  Proprietary formula I suppose?  It seems WAY different from wind chill most of the time.


the display takes in a few different variables from the 5n1 or Atlas then makes a determination for "feels like" I was just reading about this a week ago.

My w/c and f/l are never the same.
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: WXman on February 01, 2019, 10:36:21 AM
Thanks guys.  So far in this arctic blast we're having, the 5-n-1 is performing very well.  Whatever was going on with the wind chill reading has since corrected itself.
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: Victoria on February 01, 2019, 11:43:08 AM
Even though it's sorted itself out, I'd like to check into this a little more on our end. Could you please tell me what color console model you're referring to? Thanks!
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: WXman on February 01, 2019, 01:31:42 PM
I have this one.

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Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: WXman on February 04, 2019, 10:26:44 AM
Even though it's sorted itself out, I'd like to check into this a little more on our end. Could you please tell me what color console model you're referring to? Thanks!

But if you want more info on it I can get that for you. 
Title: Re: "Feels like"
Post by: Victoria on February 12, 2019, 11:28:04 AM
Even though it's sorted itself out, I'd like to check into this a little more on our end. Could you please tell me what color console model you're referring to? Thanks!

But if you want more info on it I can get that for you.

No need (unless it happens again), that tells me what I need to know. Thank you!