PORTLAND (WGME) -- Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived. However, it’s important not to use relative humidity to determine how humid it is outside. You may have heard somebody say, “The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - When summer arrives, meteorologists talk about both humidity and dew point. While the two are related, they are not the same thing. Relative humidity is a percentage that ...

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 ...

Meteorologist Paul Douglas answers reader questions about the weather and other natural phenomena every couple of weeks. Submit your own questions below. I’ve lived in other parts of the country, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It's a T-shirt kind of day in Washington, DC: 85 degrees with 63 percent humidity. We all know those numbers mean hot, but what exactly does that humidity percentage tell us? And why should we care?

Dew point and relative humidity are related, but dew point communicates how things feel much better. That’s why we use it as the basis for our Muggy Meter we show on TV and online. It’s an absolute ...