instead of using terms like heat index, they focus on explaining what it feels like outside and why those conditions are dangerous. Watches, warnings and advisories could be improved by telling ...

The Post is tracking the potential for dangerous heat using the heat index, which accounts for the combined impact of temperature and humidity — the higher the humidity, the more difficult it is ...

Unlike better-known metrics such as the heat index, wet-bulb globe temperature illustrates how sun and wind also affect people’s ability to stay cool. Most metrics assess only temperature and ...

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 ...

By one measure, every 10% increase in the proportion of hot days added another 0.12 years to participants’ molecular age.

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Unprecedented extreme heat represents a critical climate challenge, resulting in approximately 490,000 heat-related deaths ...

The heat index only takes into account temperature and humidity. WGBT considers even more factors that could make playing physically difficult or even dangerous. As such, a WGBT measurement could ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — As September debuts, we are declaring First Alert Weather Days for dangerous heat Wednesday through Friday. Over the weekend, the National Weather Service issued an ...