Why Don't Weathermen Skip the 'Actual' Temperature Just Give Us the 'Feels Like'-Temperature?

It is a new fashion worldwide. The "real feel" temperature is supposed to measure the heat flow, and is always under the real temperature. The "real feel" temperature creates only a psychological confusion on the reference. If the real feel temperature is 30°F, Kasey will dress according to her memories of the days where the temperature was 30°F. Doing this, she is confusing the temperature and the real feel temperature, because when the temperature is 30°F, the real feel temperature is always under 30°F... Formulas to calculate the real feel temperature are mostly empirical (and ugly) and have no scientific value. The notion of real feel temperature makes me think at what Flaubert was writing about the air in his Dictionary of Received Ideas, two centuries ago : "Invariably, the weather front is in contradiction to ambient temperature : if the latter is warm, the former is cold, and vice versa." Don't bother about the "real feel" and look only at the real thing .

Sometimes this can bother me too. But then I realize that the "feels like temp." is actually giving me the heads up that there is a wind chill factor and if I don't dress appropriately I may freeze when going outdoors.

the temperature is accurate number they give u of the degrees outside. But the real feel temperature is what it feels like to an actual person. it also tells you how to dress for that weather