Research from the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, a cooperative that includes LSU, Texas A&M, and the University of Oklahoma, finds that humidity levels are rising.
That means higher heat indices in the summer and heavy rainfall.
“If your perceptions have been ‘it’s getting more uncomfortable out there,’ you would have been correct,” said LSU Health New Orleans climatologist Barry Keim. “What we’re finding is that the vast majority of this region, humidity levels are indeed increasing.”…