While high temperatures will remain in the 80s, lower dew points will make it feel more comfortable and less oppressive. The cooler, drier air is tied to a low-pressure system off the coast that is ...
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.
If you think this summer has felt extra sticky and sweltering hot in Ohio and Kentucky, you're not alone. Greater Cincinnati has spent much of the summer trying to stay cool, as the area has been ...
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 ...
Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...
Hot summers are nothing new for much of the United States, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an ...
More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has noticeably dialed up the Eastern United States’ humidity in recent decades, an ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Did you notice a bit of humidity in the air on Friday morning? If you did, it’s not your imagination. Dew points crept into the 50s, and will likely hang out in the 50s and 60s ...
ST. LOUIS- If you noticed how high the humidity was this past July, you’re not the only one. The average dew point for July of 2025 was nearly 4-6 degrees above normal for the St. Louis area. “That’s ...
We’ll be discussing the difference between dew point and relative humidity in this edition of Weather Tidbits. Both of these weather parameters describe moisture in the air, but represent very ...
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Let’s start with this... it gets humid every summer. Yes, we know. But has this summer felt like the humidity hasn’t let up much and we aren’t getting as many comfortable days?