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Old 07-08-2024, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
If the high is only 88, they report the "heat index" will be 100, and put up the area map showing heat indices rather than actual temps. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it certainly looks like the MSM is either actively or passively pushing the fallacious "climate change" agenda.
I never heard the term heat index growing up so I googled it.

“The heat index was developed in 1979 by Robert G. Steadman.”

However, I don’t recall it being widely used until the last 10-15 years. I first noticed it when the weather forecast on tv showed temperatures in the 105-110 range but the forecast was in the mid 90s. I remember thinking the forecast was wrong and then I heard the term heat index. They should put both onscreen - the temperature and the heat index.

I wonder what the heat index was when I was a kid and the actual temperature was low 100s. And we didn’t have air conditioning. But a lot of things were easier when we were younger.