This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Throughout the ...

A question we receive quite often at NBC6 is why we report on the heat index as much as, or even more than, we report on the temperature. The heat index--also called the apparent temperature or ...

The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels on your body when relative humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature. Since heat index values were devised for shady, light wind ...

With an early summer heat wave baking Michigan and the Midwest, residents may notice two temperatures provided with daily forecasts: actual and apparent — or "feels like" — temperatures based on the ...

Throughout July, as temperatures have soared across the D.C. region, meteorologists have been referring to a metric known as the “heat index” to describe just how hot it has actually been. The metric, ...

Every summer, TV meteorologists across the United States increasingly trumpet the “heat index” as an important headline number. But that figure -- the infamous “feels like” temperature -- is a ...

The heat index, or apparent temperature, combines air temperature and humidity to indicate how hot it feels to the body. High humidity slows sweating, the body's natural cooling system, making ...

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 ...