Calculator for Heat Index from Temperature and Relative Humidity
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Yeah... so maybe it reads 90° on the thermometer... but at 87% relative humidity it FEELS LIKE it is 119° instead. The heat index (HI) is a measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity (RH) is added to the actual air temperature. Try it! Enter in the air temperature (Tair ) in degrees Fahrenheit and relative humidity (RH) in percent (without the % sign), then click on calculate to compute the heat index (HI) and the dewpoint (Tdp). Valid entries are air temperatures greater than 80 °F, and relative humidities higher than 40 percent. |
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Thanks to NOAA’s National Weather Service for the calculator and to Lans Rothfusz, MIC at NWS Tulsa, Oklahoma for the table.