Across much of the world, hotter days are no longer arriving alone. The air itself is changing, sometimes turning from dry ...
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 ...
It’s often said that it’s not the heat that gets you; it’s the humidity. We had our first serving of the uncomfortable and ...
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.
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 ...