'Feels like' temperature Formula Help Please

Cooking with gas:

Haven’t quite worked it out yet. Been a bit distracted again with unneeded but understandably neccessary post councilling and so on but I have the brackets wrong myself so have a consistant but wrong answer for feels like using the previous: https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/weather/weather-and-climate-from-a-to-z/wind-chill.html

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will look at that anew tomorrow. Nit sure why I could not see it in the tag list. Cheers

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this works for apparent temperature in metric units (round(#WCT#+0.33*#WCHN#/100*6.105*exp(17.27*#WCT#/(237.7+#WCT#))-0.7*#WND#-4)) or
(round(#WCT#+0.0201465*#WCHN#*exp(17.27*#WCT#/(237.7+#WCT#))-0.7*#WND#-4))

And this one seems to work for imperial units setting
(round((((#WCT#-32)*5/9)+0.0201465*#WCHN#*exp(17.27*((#WCT#-32)*5/9)/(237.7+((#WCT#-32)*5/9)))-0.7*#WND#*1.6/3.6-4)*9/5)+32)

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@petruuccios Thanks - it works perfectly!
My only problem is how you got to the above from the original formula - could you please give me the original formula so that I can try and see how you got from one to the other?
Thanks again.

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It comes from the calculator page I suggested earlier, it is also on wikipedia.


I just substituted the vapour pressure with formula for it

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it was the water vapour pressure formula and using exp in the tag that fooled me!

thanks again

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Do not forget to add formulas for both unit systems and alternate them using #UNITSYS# tag, if you plan on publishing it, or there will be nonsensical results.

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Yes indeed - there will be imperial and metric choices. I do intend to publish :grinning:

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So.


Humidity was 70% so this gives me:
(round(6+0.33*70/100*6.105*exp(17.27*6/(237.7+6))-0.7*122.3-4))
Which is a feels like of -81. I did nip out for 10 mins for some wave shots of the water 100m out near high tide as it was blowing towards show but only felt like -5 to -10 minimum

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Gosh . Dedicated Testing .

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There was no way I was gonna miss my first chance to deliberately be out in a 75+mph gale. The gust were pretty exhilarating but after 10 minutes I feared not having the ability to hold onto my phone in sub zero (but not -81) chill.
Las time was accidental during hurricane Bawbag and it was only 45mph horizontal hale that time.

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I was going to say I am not that stubborn but I now have some extreme raw numbers to plug in and I don’t trust the exp() function in Facer because it relies on interpretations of a constant so if the formula calls for x^y I’ll try again for x**y

I am thinking that if we go back to **0.16 we will be goodbut I have beeen awake for 70 hours now and the caffiene is failing but I don’t think today’s windchill was -81°

I think the idea is to work with the links we have (with or without humidity) and know that in Facer 2**3=8 (2^3) and 50**0.16*=1.86997241771 Google Calc

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where was this wind speed? I mean that 370km/h

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