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Old October 8th 14, 07:35 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default The "feels like" debate

Martin Brown wrote:

On 08/10/2014 10:42, Dave Cornwell wrote:
I was thinking about this and I don't have as much of a problem as some
others with it. Clearly most of us know what a temperature means and
everyone may "feel" different anyway due to their inbuilt resiliances.


In countries like Japan where the climate is hot and humid in summer and dry
cold in winter they have another "comfort" indicator that is a mixture of
temperature and humidity. The good zone being just enough of each. I found
dry cold much more acceptable than the natives.



They probably spoke just as highly of you :-) Sorry, couldn't help it!


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