KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When you're watching your favorite on-air meteorologist talking about the heat, they usually show you a graphic of the air temperatures and/or the heat index value. Those are pretty ...

Whenever it gets really hot anywhere in the United States, we search for ways to convey how darn uncomfortable it is outside. Saying “it’s 110°F in the shade!” is one of the go-to phrases to ...

As recent fervor for storm chasing and the national pastime of doubting meteorological predictions demonstrates, weather can be a tricky beast to pin down. To truly wrangle it and capture its data, ...

Starting with the sensor, measuring and controlling temperature is an essential building block of process industries. Automatic control in continuous processes uses industrial control systems to ...

Temperature is the most widely measured variable in the process industries, and it is often a critical factor in industrial processing. If a temperature measurement is not accurate or reliable, it can ...

Monitoring atmospheric temperature at high altitudes is essential for meteorological forecasting and climate change research. Traditional electronic thermometers can be unreliable due to the effects ...

Each body with a temperature higher than absolute zero (–273.15 °C = 0 Kelvin) releases electromagnetic radiation from the surface. This radiation is proportional to its intrinsic temperature. One ...

Have you ever noticed that your weather forecast shows both the actual temperature and a “feels like” temperature? That’s because 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) when it’s breezy and dry ...