Adam Crum

What the heck is that anyway? Well, am I glad you asked or what? According to Wikipedia: The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity in an attempt to determine the human-perceived equivalent temperature — how hot it feels, termed the felt air temperature.

Right… gotcha. So basically we as the sissy civilization we have become have had to create a term to better describe an idea that represents us not being able to deal with it being over 100 degrees. OMG its 100 degrees out right now but it “feels” like 105.

Thats like saying to the police officer who pulls you over, “I know that it was a red light sir… but it felt like a green light according to my color index.” Its just not going to fly. If these people who invented the HI were really that adamant about the idea, they would have created some sort of thermometer that actually “calculates” all those pretend variables and actually displays the new correct temperature.

P.S. When I was in Kuwait in 2003, I remember being on a post about 10:30 in the morning sometime in August or so. The fellow Marine I was on duty with brought a digital thermometer with him and had it sitting in the shade. It read 140+ degrees. 10AM… IN THE SHADE! And trust me, we didn’t get to stand in the shade with the thermometer. The weather here in the U.S. is SOOOOOO WONDERFULL compared to what the guys in the sand are dealing with. One more reason for you to thank a soldier, sailor, airmen, or Marine.