The cold version of the 'heat index' is the 'wind chill' factor. Both are pseudo-scientific terms for the effect that other factors have on the way you feel temperature.

Humidity lessens your ability to sweat (and therefore cool down) so if it's hot and the humidity is high, they claim it "feels like" it's hotter. Wind strips the heat from your body making cold temperatures 'feel' colder. I know you know this, but I am trying to agree with you and explain their 'reasoning' at the same time.

Basically, they're reporting on feelings instead of temperature because it drives views and clicks.

What really chaps by backside is the scare tactics they use when reporting the weather.

Many weather outlets are slowly removing actual air temperature measurements and replacing them with the "feels like" made up temperature numbers. When they completely remove the real air temperature reports, they will be free to make up any (((feels like))) temperature they wish to since the average idiot knows nothing about the weather and there are no air temperatures to compare it to. The point is to fabricate the weather narrative to be driven by the (((climate change))) scam and portray it as actual fact and science.

Everything in the world is becoming driven by made up data that fits their narratives and cannot be challenged with anything of substance. The grift will continue and it will all be done for when the last generation to know anything real is gone. The jews lie about everything so they can control the dumb masses. Don't believe their lies. Cleanse the world of this parasite.

It's like "Wind Chill"

Sure, that can be a useful number, but some people get scared. "OH MY GAWD THE WIND CHILL IS -10 MY PIPES ARE GOING TO FREEEESEEEEEZE!"

No moron, it just means it's cold and windy.

Like "Heating Degree Days" and "Cooling Degree Days." I remember the local station my grandmother listening to always talking about these, there was always massive numbers. How can something be a deviation from a norm if every time it's a deviation?

It's called wind chill.

It's just heat and humidity. If the humidity is high in the summer, it's muggy - the heat "sticks" to you. The heat index is a formula that calculates what this air temp and humidity level would "feel" similar to if the humidity was 0%. Like 90 degrees at 80% humidity would feel like 110 degrees 0% humidity. If the atmosphere is saturated with water, it becomes harder for an object to dump heat. That's where the feels like comes from.

Heat index takes humidity into account. The most my city ever sees is the high 90s, but since the humidity is so high, it makes it "feel" hotter. As a result, I've seen heat indexes over 120 here. It's somewhat true to an extent. I've experienced 110+ dry, and going back to 90+ humid felt about the same. Of course, the jews are using it to push a climate narrative to scare people and that's where it's completely wrong.

So while it's mostly a BS claim, it's also somewhat not BS. The truth to this is higher humidity impacts the efficiency of sweating. At the same warm temperature, the one with low humidity will be easier to manage for the body. There's also a million other factors. Most notably, the sun obviously warms you and your surroundings, but at a level higher than the temperature outside. This is because temperature is usually measured in a shaded environment.

It also works the other way with cold temperatures but as the wind chill factor. More humidity makes it "feel" colder, and I think it's true, but since we rarely get cold weather here, I can't really vouch for it. I can confirm that hot weather and high humidity feels warmer and more uncomfortable, but not to the extent that the (((media))) wants you to believe.

Life is all about being scared or hating someone for some reason, aint it?

there is a cold index it's called "wind chill".

Fuck all news and media in general.

Mostly for high temperatures, it will be using humidity to bump up the "feels like" temperature.

Used to get to 45-47C in Summer when I was a kid, that would last for about a week or so, but it was bearable for a short time, particularly if there was a slight breeze, because it was a dry heat (we weren't in the tropics). The humidity reduces the effectiveness of evaporation, so sweating won't cool you down.

Generally though, it's just bullshit that they use to claim that the weather is worse now than it used to be. It's not. They're just lying to you and using turd quality datasets that are corrupted by monitoring stations that are poorly sighted (like at airports or in large urban areas).

Perceived heat correlates to how much of a fatass you are.

with human blood flooding

LOL

I use the Weatherstar 4000+ (weatherstar.netbymatt.com)

Feels like

Appeal to emotion fallacy