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 ...

The heat index, or apparent temperature, combines air temperature and relative humidity to indicate how hot it feels. High humidity slows sweating, the body's natural cooling system, making ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

The heat you feel outside is rising far faster than the temperature on the thermometer. New research from the University of ...

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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 ...

If you are living in one of many areas of the U.S. currently experiencing a heat wave, your outdoor thermometer may say it's in the 90s, but your local weather station tells you it feels like triple ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When we talk about hot days here in South Carolina, the temperature only tells part of the story. The real danger often lies in the heat index or the “feels like” temperature. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...