Include "Feels like" temperature
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Hey team, can you please incorporate "feels like" temperature as an option. If you have a look at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, they use wind chill etc etc to give a "feels like" temperature which is much more accurate. Currently it's supposed to be about 12 degrees Celsius at 11:30pm in Sydney but with the cold winds it's actually closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Right now it also shows Kosciuszko at 0 degrees Celsius, but with wind chill, humidity etc it's closer to -8 degrees Celsius.
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@paultiffin
Wind chill temperature (WCT) is NOT more accurate that the real temperature.
See what MeteoSwiss say about it
“The definition of WCT was chosen for reasons of comprehensibility, as a temperature is better understood by the general public than a measurement in watts per square metre. It is therefore not a temperature in the true sense of the word, but a measure of the rate of heat loss that is simply expressed in units of temperature.
Important:
Unlike perceived temperature (see above), the WCT does not take air humidity or radiation conditions into consideration.
Moreover, it is only applicable to temperatures of 10 degrees or less – in other words, to temperatures lower than what we perceive as comfortable.
WCT is also calculated on the basis of a number of assumptions that are not always true.
For example, the altitude of the air is assumed to be at sea level. But in the mountains, the air is thinner, which means the heat loss and the wind chill effect are less.
Additional influencing factors that affect how we perceive temperature (e.g. physical activity, clothing, body size and weight, etc.) are not taken into consideration.”
