During the hot, humid summer months, meteorologists often discuss the heat index instead of the actual air temperature. But how is the heat index calculated, and why is it more important than the air ...

Blistering heat and oppressive humidity are expected in the city of Chicago and parts of Illinois this week, with excessive heat warnings and heat advisories going into effect. Forecasters are warning ...

A question we receive quite often at NBC6 is why we report on the heat index as much as, or even more than, we report on the temperature. The heat index--also called the apparent temperature or ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Throughout the summer, much of the country has experienced at least a few days of extreme heat. In some cases, Americans were seeing large differences between real and ...

Throughout July, as temperatures have soared across the D.C. region, meteorologists have been referring to a metric known as the “heat index” to describe just how hot it has actually been. The metric, ...

The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels on your body when relative humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature. Since heat index values were devised for shady, light wind ...

TO BE A LITTLE BIT COOLER FOR FANS, A LITTLE COOLER, FRANKLY. IT IS GOING TO BE COOLER. COOLER. I MEAN, TWO IS LESS THAN THREE. THERE WE GO. WE’LL TAKE EVERY DEGREE AND WE’RE GONNA WE’RE GONNA WE’RE ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Throughout the ...