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When you watch your First Alert Forecast, you may hear the meteorologist reference the dew point temperature in reference to how humid or how comfortable the air might feel to you. Viewers have asked ...

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Mike Moss: Relative humidity is not related to temperature and dew point in quite that direct a manner, although they certainly are interdependent quantities. There are some online calculators that ...

The short answer: relative to the greatest amount of water vapor that can be contained in the air at a particular temperature. For example, a relative humidity reading of 50 percent means the water ...