Mr. Limbaugh is a highly successful blowhard, with whom I generally agree on political matters.
Sometimes, as in this case, he just runs his mouth too much and lets his ignorance show.
95 in Tucson does NOT feel like 95 in Houston, understanding of which may be above his pay grade. He needs to stick with poking fun at politicos.
110 in Tuscon feels better than 95 in Houston.
I've never liked the heat index measure, either. I think a wet bulb temperature would be a better measure of what the air "feels" like but most folks probably wouldn't understand it.
I’ve always thought a good cartoon would be two guy’s slaving away in hell, with one saying to the other “Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.”
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.
I think Mr. Limbaugh’s point is that FEELS like 116 becomes WAS 116 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT in the minds of a distracted public.
He’s just warning people that it is another subtle attempte at propping up an effort to create a worldwide common enemy in ‘global climate change’.
I’m in my home office, where it is 58 degrees fahrehheit outside and pouring down rain. I’m in sweats, with shoes on, the window open for fresh air, and I’ve got a small heater running under my desk to keep my feet warm.
It’s coming down in buckets.
Reporting the heat index is much more accurate then reporting the temperatures. But there is a problem. Anytime an AGW acolyte can find an angle to support AGW, they will use it. So they are now reporting heat indexes and comparing them to previous temperature indexes. They need to either put disclaimers on the heat index (this is not comparable to previous temperatures) or they need to report previous historical heat indexes for comparison.
The understanding is in the political aspect. Folks hear that is was 123 degrees yesterday and they think the world is warming. It is not an accident that the higher heat index numbers get so much play in the media.
Rush was going after the media for reporting it WAS 116, ambient, not heat index. Didn’t hear Rush’s rant, but did hear the 116 in DC on the radio.
Temp map showed it hotter in Corpus Christi, on the coast, than in Laredo which I immediately called BS. Map did not say heat index, it said temps.