Dear rexross and WeatherCat numerologists, . . . .
I am having trouble understanding the difference between the tags for HeatIndex and Apparent Temperature
Huh? I didn't even know WeatherCat supported such a thing.
However, if you check the WeatherCat manual not only does WeatherCat support the United States definition of
"Apparent Temperature" it also can compute the Australian version!
That just leaves one matter - what in the
blankety, blank is
"Apparent Temperature" in the first place. Well, putting Goggle on the case I came up with this definition:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/societal-impacts/apparent-temp/atIt appears to be another computed value based on some attempt to evaluate how the human body responds to weather extremes.
I've gone on record in the past discouraging people from trying to use these computed values. I strongly feel that you cannot convert the complexity of experienced weather into a single number - especially a pseudo temperature. We all have weather stations, so we have all the raw data. We do better explaining to people the complexity of how our body responds than to try humor them with a single number.
In the end it reminds me of the saying:
"A man with a watch knows the time. A man with two (or more) is never sure."Cheers, Edouard