Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived.

An email from Mathew wants to know which is the better measure of humidity, relative humidity or dew point. Dew point is by far the better measurement of how how much water is contained in the air.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Higher dew points can mean misery. Parts of the United States have gotten an early taste of summer weather, as temperatures and ...

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" ...

Not all measurements are created equal when it comes to moisture content in the air around you. Relative humidity may be better known and more talked about, but dew point is a much better measure of ...

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 ...

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 ...