I’m in the Houston area now. Nobody ever said “yeah, but it’s a dry heat” in Houston. Heat Index is real. And if you have a job where you got to where FRC’s out in the plant, it is even more real.
I live right outside Houston.
We got lucky and finally got some rain, but the humidity is now way up. I almost put myself down this last weekend. Still not back to normal.
People that work inside have the luxury of just wanting to know the actual temp, the rest of us poor bastards don’t.
We actually have a need to know the heat index to keep from killing ourselves.