Extra moisture in the air can make typically bearable high temperatures significantly more dangerous. While air temperature is important, the heat index may be a more important indicator of ...

instead of using terms like heat index, they focus on explaining what it feels like outside and why those conditions are dangerous. Watches, warnings and advisories could be improved by telling ...

Unlike better-known metrics such as the heat index, wet-bulb globe temperature illustrates how sun and wind also affect people’s ability to stay cool. Most metrics assess only temperature and ...

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

The lawsuit, in part, accuses corrections officials of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal laws ...

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If the air temperature is already quite high, a high humidity level would lead to an even higher number on the heat index, which could create dangerous conditions. Here’s a look at the actual ...

There are nearly 2 million outdoor workers in Florida — more than 327,000 in Miami-Dade – who are working in dangerous ...

The heat index only takes into account temperature and humidity. WGBT considers even more factors that could make playing physically difficult or even dangerous. As such, a WGBT measurement could ...

Past and future projected days of highly dangerous heat are based on a Washington Post ... The vegetation map shows the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a widely used indicator ...

According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by ...

The review, commissioned by the city after Silver’s death on an August day when the heat index broke 100 and released ... their pets indoors because of dangerous heat conditions, and allegedly ...