Every summer, I get asked this question: "Why don't you use relative humidity? I don't care about the dew point." The thing is - you should care about the dew point more. The dew point is quite ...

Higher dew points can mean misery. Parts of the United States have gotten an early taste of summer weather, as temperatures and humidity are on the rise. Summer can start to feel particularly sticky ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year when the lexicon of the meteorologist regularly includes the phrase dew point. This concept is often confused with relative humidity which doesn’t tell us anything about how you ...

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 measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.

Metro Denver was smacked with unusual high humidity Tuesday morning. 9News Senior Meteorologist Chris Bianchi posted on social media around 6:30 a.m. that the dew point in the Mile High City was 66 ...