the wind chill factor for July

If you live in the south, you've had some heat lately. The weather reporters have all sorts of words to describe the degree of heat: "scorching" or "sweltering," for example. The heat index has been well over 100 degrees, and the Weather Center has issued heat advisories every day for the last several days.

My poor husband has to work out in this stuff--I don't even like to walk through a parking lot to my car in it! He does like the heat much better than the cold of winter, though.

When I was a child, my mom called the "feels like" temperature during the summer the "wind chill factor." Somehow, just naming it something different made it feel a little cooler. I don't know if we used "heat index" for winter, too, but I think about the wind chill factor every summer when the temperatures are sweltering hot....and somehow, it helps for just a second.