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 ...

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 ...

With an early summer heat wave baking Michigan and the Midwest, residents may notice two temperatures provided with daily forecasts: actual and apparent — or "feels like" — temperatures based on the ...

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — When you hear the term “heat index” in the forecast, it’s usually paired with a much higher number than the actual temperature. For example, you might hear us say “It’s 94 ...

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

Every summer, TV meteorologists across the United States increasingly trumpet the “heat index” as an important headline number. But that figure -- the infamous “feels like” temperature -- is a ...