Heat indices combine temperature and relative humidity to indicate how hot the body feels.

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Some included information on relative humidity, which he converted to absolute humidity.

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Shaman converted the guinea pig data from relative humidity to absolute humidity and found the link between air moisture and flu spread got much stronger.

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So depending on the relative humidity and temperature, 100 or more water molecules diffuse out of the leaf for every molecule of carbon dioxide that diffuses in.

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Relative humidity is like a car's gas gauge, Shaman notes.

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The Met Office's "feels like temperature" takes into account expected air temperature, relative humidity and the strength of the wind at around 5 feet (1.5m) - the typical height of a person's face.

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