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 ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two common weather terms you'll hear many times in the warmer part of the year are "dew point" and "relative humidity". While both relate to moisture in the air and the "stickiness" ...

Dew point is a measure of moisture in the air. Dew points above 70° feel tropical, dew points above 60° feel humid. In the winter, if dew points drop below 0, it indicates a very dry and cold air mass ...

Happy Independence Day, Short Wavers! Do you have plans outdoors this weekend and want to figure out just how swampy it's gonna feel? For that... Need a better way to check the weather this summer?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Carolinians are all too familiar with muggy summer days. Check your weather app of choice and you’ll notice humidity presented as a percentage: 68 percent humidity, 92 percent humidity, ...

Boston has registered 120 hours with a dew point of 70 degrees or higher through July 15 – over two times as many hours compared to average, according to data compiled by Iowa State University.The ...

NO. NOT TODAY. OH, BOY. IT IS. IT IS TOUGH THIS AFTERNOON. IT WAS TOUGH THIS MORNING. IT’S GOING TO BE TOUGH TONIGHT. IT’S GOING TO BE TOUGH TOMORROW. WHAT A STRETCH OF HEAT THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY ...