Here’s an even more deceiving weather situation. One day is 80 degrees and 50 percent relative humidity. Another day is 90 ...

There are various ways to measure the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. The amount of moisture a given parcel of air can hold is dependent on the ambient temperature. Higher temperatures mean ...

If you stepped outside this afternoon, you probably noticed it almost instantly. The air felt heavy, thick, and distinctly ...

Imagine you’re sitting among friends on the porch with a big pitcher of ice cold lemonade. The heat is searing and the air is still and stifling. It’s almost hard to breathe. You look to your friends ...

Dew point is the temperature at which the air becomes “saturated” – in other words, it is holding all the water vapor it possibly can. If the temperature and the dew point equal each other, the water ...

Noel Kirkpatrick is an editor and writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He covers many topics, including animals, science, and the environment. Complaining about the humidity is a go-to conversation ...

“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” we complain. Even though it’s something so tangible and familiar to us, humidity can be an awfully tricky thing to understand. There’s more than one way to ...

(via SciShow) Have you ever wondered why 75% humidity in the summer feels sticky, but 75% humidity in the winter feels super dry? Turns out, the common definition of humidity is inconvenient and ...

Relative humidity and dew point both give us an idea of the amount of moisture in the atmosphere; however, only dew point is a true measurement of the atmospheric moisture. Relative humidity is ...

Dew point/relative humidity questions come up fairly often and this is a good one. Water vapor in the atmosphere is pretty important for deep-sky observing and photography. The atmosphere can only ...

The Miami Valley is dealing with the first heatwave of 2020! Not only is it hot, but it is also very humid! You have probably heard your Storm Center 7 Team talk about the dew point temperature or ...