HOUSTON — You may have heard about "wet-bulb" temperatures recently thanks to hot temperatures around the world. The science behind it can be a little complicated, but essentially the wet-bulb ...

An oppressive heat dome has gripped the eastern U.S. this week, prompting the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue heat warnings for nearly 170 million Americans. To make matters worse, severe ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...

The body’s cooling defenses fail at lower “wet bulb” temperatures than scientists had estimated. By Clayton Dalton Last month was the second-hottest September ever recorded; it came after the world’s ...

Sports teams, firms with outdoor workers and the U.S. military all use wet bulb globe temperature to help decide if outdoor activity is safe. Here, a U.S. Navy corpsman checks a device that measure ...

One of the most traditional and widely used measures of humidity is the wet bulb temperature. This value provides insight into how saturated the air is and is essential for calculating other ...

A deadly combination of high temperatures and oppressive humidity has prompted the National Weather Service to issue advisories in 15 states. Reading time 2 minutes Summer may be winding down, but ...