The heat index -- how hot it really feels -- is rising faster than temperature

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Researchers showed in 2022 that heat index calculations by NOAA based on analyses from the 1970s don't adequately reflect the heat stress humans feel during the extremes of heat and humidity accompanying climate change.

The heat index -- how hot it really feels -- is rising faster than temperature." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 March 2024. <www.sciencedaily.comUniversity of California - Berkeley. . The heat index -- how hot it really feels -- is rising faster than temperature.

When the heat index was created nearly 45 years ago, it was a good measure of how hot it feels under increasing humidity. It still is. But with climate change, weather extremes are becoming more ...

 

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