September 23, 2008

Which means it feels like its 95º

I'm just going to say it: I don't believe in the heat index. I think it has an enormous fundamental flaw. It is supposed to take the air temperature and combine it with the humidity to determine the human-perceived temperature. The problem is, if it is 90 degrees out, no matter what the humidity is, that is what 90 degrees feels like. If it is 90 degrees out and very humid, it may feel hotter, but it is still 90 degrees out, so that is what 90 degrees feels like. It is like taking the number 10, and writing it out really big, and saying that because you wrote it out big that it will be perceived as 11. Just say that it is 90 degrees out with 50% humidity, not that it is 90 degrees out, but that it feels like it is 95 degrees out. Because if it were 95 degrees out, it would feel like 104 degrees. And so on. And so on. 

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