Every summer, sweltering Americans — myself included — fall for a meteorological scam as we seek information about the day’s oppressive heat.
That’s because the “feels like” or “heat index” measurement blaring from our radios or posted on our weather apps isn’t a measurement at all.
TV meteorologists across the nation trumpet the “heat index” as a headline number, but in fact it’s just a calculated estimate — not something that can be gauged, like air temperature, humidity or barometric pressure…