Ok, so I'm half-swing back around to buying into the "feels like" temperature.
I understand that it is an indicator of factors other than temperature that may make or break my day. I understand that it is useful, and not all for drama as I originally stated.
I still do not believe that it should be expressed as a temperature, because the "feels like" temperature really doesn't "feel like" it states, given who you are and where you are from.
I really don't have a better idea to express the effects of wind and humidity's effect on temperature, so I guess I'll let the weather man off the hook on this one; even though he can't predict the weather.
When I was in the military, they expressed it as "black flag" or "red flag", etc. - if the black flag was flying, you had better be hydrating. That's a pretty good nonconfusing system.
I understand that it is an indicator of factors other than temperature that may make or break my day. I understand that it is useful, and not all for drama as I originally stated.
I still do not believe that it should be expressed as a temperature, because the "feels like" temperature really doesn't "feel like" it states, given who you are and where you are from.
I really don't have a better idea to express the effects of wind and humidity's effect on temperature, so I guess I'll let the weather man off the hook on this one; even though he can't predict the weather.
When I was in the military, they expressed it as "black flag" or "red flag", etc. - if the black flag was flying, you had better be hydrating. That's a pretty good nonconfusing system.