{"id":325,"date":"2014-06-26T22:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=325"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:16","slug":"the-heat-index-explained-in-nc-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/06\/the-heat-index-explained-in-nc-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heat Index explained in NC blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard the term &#8220;heat index&#8221; to describe the added stress due to high humidities on days that are already hot. \u00a0But what does this term really mean? \u00a0Our friends from the NC State Climate Office explain it <a title=\"Heat index explained\" href=\"https:\/\/nc-climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=81&amp;h=5666e5c1\">here<\/a> in this blog posting. \u00a0Similar types of indices are used to estimate stress on cattle and other livestock. \u00a0Heat and humidity are more dangerous as the animals get larger, since large animals have a smaller ratio of surface area and skin that can help the animal cool off compared to their volume or weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard the term &#8220;heat index&#8221; to describe the added stress due to high humidities on days that are already hot. \u00a0But what does this term really mean? \u00a0Our friends from the NC State Climate Office explain it here in this blog posting. \u00a0Similar types of indices are used to estimate stress on cattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}