Most people blame the weather when their home feels muggy, sticky, or faintly musty. It's an easy assumption, especially ...

Mike Moss: Relative humidity is not related to temperature and dew point in quite that direct a manner, although they certainly are interdependent quantities. There are some online calculators that ...

Why is it that when it's raining, the relative humidity isn't 100%?

A higher dew point directly means that there is more water vapor in the air. So when you’re describing the air as being ...

It’s not too hard to find the words to describe New Hampshire’s weather over the past few days. Some words come to mind like oppressive, sticky, tropical, clammy and sweaty.Simply put, it’s humid. But ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - When you watch the KBTX Pinpoint Weather Team forecast a day of weather in the Brazos Valley, you may hear phrases like “95 degrees with 80 percent humidity” used. But what does ...

When referring to the mugginess of the air, meteorologists will point to dew point rather than relative humidity. Relative humidity is indeed a measure of how much moisture is in the air relative to ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – There might not be a more misunderstood phrase in meteorology than “relative humidity.” Every summer when humidity returns, this phrase echoes across the United States: “It ...

In a large part of the United States, winter months bring about bitterly cold temperatures. That cold air carries less moisture than warm air, and when that cold air is heated by your furnace (which ...

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 ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WJBF) – The South Carolina Forestry Commission has lifted State Forester’s Burning Ban for all counties as of ...