Relative humidity is expressed as a percentage, whereas the dew point is expressed in degrees.

Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived.

Have you ever wondered why meteorologists on TV focus on the dewpoint temperature and not relative humidity? Or, have you ...

Meteorologists talk plenty about the dew point temperature during the summer, as it is a great indicator of humidity and a condition to watch when severe weather is possible. So what is it? The dew ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This time of the year it is especially important that we effectively communicate the amount of moisture in the atmosphere on any given day. There are different ways of doing this, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is because the dew point is a measure of how much water vapor is in the air and relative humidity is a measure of how much water vapor is in the air relative to how much water vapor could be in ...