so why isn’t it enough to simply state the truth? It’s 95 with high humidity?
Or have a humidity index that doesn’t involve skewing the real temp.
The reporters are absolutely breathless over this killer heat dome that is smothering us all!
They love to use those artificially high numbers.
This morning it was still in the 80s and we had a heavy, pea-soup fog.
No, this is not normal stuff ~ and there's nothing artificial about it.
The heat index is useful here if not where you are. We are not misled by the artificially low "ordinary temperature". We all understand the heat index combines relative humidity with heat to give us the information we really need to protect ourselves.