Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

It’s hot. The thermometer says it’s 90 but your phone says it “feels like” 95. What does that mean? The heat index, or “feels like” temperature, is a way to express how hot it feels to the human body.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s that time of the year again when heat and humidity cause sweltering temperatures across Kentucky and southern Indiana. You’ve likely heard about the heat index mentioned once or ...

The heat index, or apparent temperature, combines air temperature and humidity to indicate how hot it feels to the body. High humidity slows sweating, the body's natural cooling system, making ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Cruising past a cornfield, you may not realize just how much moisture enters our atmosphere surrounding an area of farmland. Ohio farmers planted 3.25 million acres of corn ...