Has anyone noticed that it is no longer the temperature but the “Feels Like Temperature”; which is always 7 to 10 degrees higher?
Yep. And the bright red on the weather maps.
Definitely! Always hotter in summer (feels like), and colder in winter (wind chill).
Seasonal adjustment. During the hot part of the year the concern is for humidity preventing perspiration to augment cooling. Heat stroke can be fatal in a hot, high humidity environment. In Winter, the concern is "wind chill". Still air exposes flesh to the ambient temperature. Adding wind, additional heat from the skin surface is carried away more quickly.
The "ambient" temperature without consideration for humidity or wind speed is the officially recorded temperature. The "feels like" accounts for impacts of humidity and wind on living creatures. I watch the dew point on my weather instruments. The ambient temperature can not drop lower than the dew point as that is where the water in the atmosphere changes phase from gas to liquid...fog. I have fruit trees with unharvested fruit at this time of year. The dew point alerts me to the urgency to harvest the fruit before it can freeze.