Caroline Brown Meteorologist Education University of Oklahoma, Bachelors Degree in Meteorology My name is Caroline, and Im a sixth-generation T. In the meantime, if you “Feel Like” emailing me with questions or comments, I’m right here! Thanks to the viewers who questioned Feels Like-I hope this has helped!Ĭopyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved. Caroline Brown KPRC 2s Caroline Brown explains the summer solstice and what that means for Houston residents. I hope you’ll take a minute to learn more about this amazing man who dedicated his life to making us all weather aware and weather smart. George’s idea was picked up by the National Weather Service a year later and they labeled it the “Heat Index”.Ī very nice tribute to George is here on the WJXT website. I blogged about George in 2019 and just how he came up with the Feels Like idea and how he calculated it. George passed on June 21st of this year at age 92 and he’ll be missed. On a professional and personal note, the meteorologist who came up with the Feels Like and first called it “Humiture” in 1978 is George Winterling, who pioneered television weather from 1962 to 2007 on WJXT, our sister station in Jacksonville, Florida. Here’s a graphic of just what is going on: Why? This never was in the past.All this does is create anxiety for the viewers!!Can you please stop doing this!! Thanksįirst, let me say I’ve been using the “Feels Like” temperatures since the mid 1980s on TV so that last one is just not paying attention! I would say that controlled environments like your living room are not really the point and to Richard, while the Feels Like temps may be different to some degree for each of us, they ARE about how you feel. IT is based on a heat index (temp + humidity) not how you feel.Īnd from anonymous: The current temperature report or forecast always seems to include the Feels Like Temperatures. ![]() She feels like it is 32 degF while it feels like 95 degF to me.Īnd from Richard: The Feels like temp is different for everyone. She will complain that it is freezing while at the same time I am burning up. For example, my wife and I can be sitting in our living room watching TV with our thermostat set on 72 degF. Any given temperature feels different to everyone potentially. I really dislike these terms because they are very subjective. For instance:įrom Craig: One thing I see on the news regularly now is the use of a “Feels Like” or “Heat Index”. KPRC2 is one of the top NBC affiliates in the country and delivers breaking local news, weather, politics, entertainment and sports to our viewers and users 24 hours a day. I admit I’ve gotten a bit of pushback from viewers. KPRC 2+ is powered by KPRC Channel 2 News and. You can revisit that blog here.This summer we’ve talked a LOT about the heat, the advisories, and those “Feels Like” temperatures. I blogged in 2020 my opinion that our season is starting earlier and earlier and the start date should be changed, but no one expects that push to go anywhere. This makes it the seventh year since 2015 that a tropical system has been identified BEFORE the official June 1, beginning of the season. “What about the next tropical system to form? From the NHC: If the system begins as a tropical depression, then it would be given the designation ‘TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO’, and if it becomes a tropical storm, it would be given the name ‘ARLENE.’ Presumably the next tropical depression even after that would be TD TWO, regardless of when it forms.” The statement is definitely worth a look. The report also promises a full explanation in the coming months. Yesterday, the NHC put out a public information statement which explains the reanalysis and how this determination is made to ‘upgrade’ this system to our first tropical depression of the season.
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