The heat index is a weather term used by meteorologists almost daily. What does it mean? How does it relate to feels-like temperatures? The National Weather Service defines the heat index, which is also known as the apparent temperature, as what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. Here's NBC 6 meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin.

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