TOLEDO, Ohio — As warm summer days continue throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, so does the chance of hot days becoming more common over the years. Let us set the stage: you are watching ...
The short answer is both terms are different and describe different things about moisture in the air. The dew point is another temperature value. It is the temperature air needs to cool to become ...
Dew point and relative humidity, two terms that have floated around many weather forecasts over the years. What exactly do they mean and when are they best used to describe the conditions outside? Let ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As we head into the spring and summer, meteorologists are going to talk more about humidity and dew point. But, what’s the difference? You might be used to checking the humidity ...
I know in Houston, we hear the term humidity which is used to correlate to how muggy it may feel outside. But what actually is humidity and what does it represent? Humidity is the measurement of water ...
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 ...
Every summer, I get asked this question: "Why don't you use relative humidity? I don't care about the dew point." The thing is - you should care about the dew point more. The dew point is quite ...
As August kicks off, South Carolina residents are again under a heat advisory with temperatures that could feel like 108 degrees. Like much of the Southeast, Upstate residents will see the heat index ...
Naser Daher, of Durham’s Old Farm neighborhood, carries his belongings through floodwaters near the Eno River in Durham on ...
There are multiple ways to describe how wet the air is (yes, pretty much all air is wet). What I mean by that is there are water molecules tucked in between the gases like nitrogen and oxygen that ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In this week’s episode of Run for Fun with Leigh Spann, we discuss running in the summer. Specifically, how the dew point impacts your runs. When the dew point is high, it’s an ...