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Ya, for messaging, "wet bulb" doesn't work well. We need a more intuitive phrase, like a "wind chill factor" for heat + humidity = danger.

Edit: chewing on "wet heat factor". What do you think? Cliches like "but it's a 'dry heat' harhar" are already common. So "wet heat" might click.



IMO wet bulb is much more intuitive. The parameters for heat index are subjective.


I believe the intuition depends on context. In common jargon Wet Bulb isn't widely understood!



Nice, thanks. FWIW, I just checked, and wunderground reports both temp and 'feels like', apparently matching the NWS Heat Index:

https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/us/tx/dallas


The problem is that wet-bulb temperature is not the Heat Index or a "feels-like" temperature. Here's a bit more info: https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/definit...




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