What Is the Heat Index? What To Know About the Metric During a Heat Wave

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What Is the Heat Index? What To Know About the Metric During a Heat Wave

The metric of how hot the air actually feels has roots in a 1979 journal paper called “The Assessment of Sultriness.”

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