Misleading Temperature Data
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You are Not disclosing current and hourly “Real Feel” temperatures and that is a HUGE omission. It makes your temperature publications useless.
U say that at my location the temperature is 35F but in reality its a real feel temperature of 29F this data isn’t available on your application
You are publishing misleading temperature data
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@Petemen1 Hello, Windy visualizes forecast data based on local and global weather models. We do not show "real feel" temperature but forecast temperature from the latest prediction model runs.
You can try our weather stations if you want to see measured weather data in your area.
Additionally, you can check Wet bulb temperature, which also takes humidity into account.
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@Petemen1 "Real Feel" temperatures are based on semi-arbitrary calculations and are not observed (or modeled) metrics but instead are largely used for clickbait. In your example you give a "real feel" of 29F but water still wouldn't freeze because the actual temperature is above freezing.
Wet bulb, as mentioned by @Korina, is a very good metric for warm humidity because the wet bulb temperature is the coldest point that an object could reach if it were wet. For example, a wet bulb temperature of 90F would mean that your body could only cool to 90F if you were, say, getting out of a pool - meaning that your body couldn't cool efficently.
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@mark-ingalls real feel temps are based on modeled temperatures that include variables such as base temperature, humidity and wind. When real feel temps are -29 and normal temps are 2f thats an omission and actually invalidates your data. It needs to be added.
Its a clickbait temperature if you replace ur temps with realfeel but to simply include it as a dataset saves lives.
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@Petemen1 You are mixing up two different concepts. True air temperature and wind chill. Wind chill is not a temperature. As Mark mentioned earlier, its a calculated value based on wind speed. Even wind speeds vary so significantly between urban and rural and based on your local topography that you cannot blame Windy for not capturing that or for not displaying something you might be seeing on your PWS.
