What Feels-Like Temperature Means Today
The current temperature is the air. Feels-like is an estimate of how that air will land on a person outside once humidity and wind are included. They sit near each other because people mix them up, and mixing them up leads to the wrong layer or the wrong plan for midday heat.
Air temperature is the number to quote when you compare hours on the timeline or compare today with tomorrow. It describes shaded air a short distance above the ground, not a phone in the sun, a car dashboard, or a brick wall. Feels-like starts from that air temperature and then adjusts. In warm, humid air, sweat evaporates slowly, so the body sheds heat more slowly and the feels-like value rises. In cool, windy air, moving air strips heat from exposed skin and the feels-like value drops. On a calm, dry day the two numbers often sit close together, and the second one adds little.
Which one to use
Use the current temperature for the timeline and the high and low. Those are air temperatures, so the day stays comparable from hour to hour. Use feels-like when you are deciding what to wear right now or whether exertion at the warmest hour is wise. Do not average the two. An air temperature of 90 and a feels-like value of 97 are not "about 93." One is the air. The other is an adjustment.
The gap tells you the reason. A wide gap upward means moisture is making the hour feel heavier than the raw number. A wide gap downward means wind is doing extra cooling. Humidity and wind are on the same band so you can see which explanation fits. The estimate assumes a typical person in typical clothing. It is not a medical score. Age, health, work rate, and what you are wearing change your own experience.
What it will not match
A car interior climbs far above the air temperature because glass traps heat. Full sun feels warmer than a feels-like value that assumes shade. A north-facing doorway can sit cooler. None of those disagreements mean the current temperature is wrong. They mean you left the setting the number describes.
The afternoon high is also an air temperature. A mild high can still feel sticky if humidity stays up, and a modest evening temperature can feel colder in a breeze. If that difference matters for the hour you will be out, read feels-like again then instead of assuming the morning gap will hold until night.
A quick read
Look at the current temperature. Look at feels-like. If they match, dress for the air temperature and follow the timeline. If they do not, let humidity or wind explain the difference and decide from that. The hours on the timeline stay in air temperature so you can see the shape of the day without mixing two kinds of numbers.
When you compare this page with another forecast, compare air temperature with air temperature. Feels-like formulas are not identical from one product to the next, so that gap can look like a disagreement about the weather when it is only a disagreement about the adjustment.