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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the difference between humidity and moisture.

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 ...

Record-breaking humidity has exacerbated this summer's heat for almost half of the country. This has been the muggiest first two months of meteorological summer in 44 years. Several central and ...

In summer, the upper North Island is much more used to background humidity. In Auckland, for instance, the dew point ...