Have you ever wondered why meteorologists on TV focus on the dewpoint temperature and not relative humidity? Or, have you ...

Relative humidity is expressed as a percentage, whereas the dew point is expressed in degrees.

Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are multiple ways to describe how wet the air is (yes, pretty much all air is wet). What I mean by that is there are water ...

It’s a hot summer day and you hear someone say, “The relative humidity is 80%!” They’re probably correct, but relative humidity is just not a good way to measure how muggy the air “feels” to our ...

I know in Houston, we hear the term humidity which is used to correlate to how muggy it may feel outside. But what actually is humidity and what does it represent? Humidity is the measurement of water ...

MOLINE, Ill. — When our Storm Track 8 Weather Team talks about muggy conditions, they usually refer to the dew point rather than humidity. The dew point is typically a better measure of the atmosphere ...

Relative humidity is not a good way to tell if we have muggy air on the way. Here’s why. The key word in relative humidity is relative. The humidity percentage is given, relative to how much moisture ...

South Carolinians are all too familiar with muggy summer days. Check your weather app of choice and you’ll notice humidity presented as a percentage: 68 percent humidity, 92 percent humidity, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...

Relative humidity and dew point are often mistaken for the same thing, and can be sources of confusion. We have recently gotten questions about the differences between the two, and which is more ...