Higher dew points can result in more fog, which can have impacts on travel and boating. Boston's average dew point is only through the first half of the summer and is being compared to entire summers, ...

Monday was a hot and humid start to the work week with highs in the upper 80s and dew points ranging from about 62° to 68°. That made it feel ...

The region has already seen two heat waves, and with the heat has come the mugginess. Loads of it. Boston is on pace for one ...

Throughout the atmosphere, water in the form of vapour is intermixed with the other gas molecules that make up the air.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - After a muggy and oppressive week in the humidity department, relief is finally on the way! As a cold ...

Dew point is an overall better measurement of how humid and dry the air really feels. From the examples before, it is possible to have a high relative humidity but with low dewpoints and higher ...

FOX6 Chief Meteorologist Tom Wachs explains the difference between dew point and relative humidity.

Weather Ask the Meteorologist: Why do we show dew point and not relative humidity? The dew point is a more accurate number to measure mugginess in the summer months.

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 ...

Even if the air temperature remains constant, a rising dew point means it feels muggier. This stickiness is related to humidity, but relative humidity is the percentage of how full the air is with ...

“If you look at dew points frequently enough, you start to understand what 60 degree dew points feel like. Relative humidity doesn’t quite capture that the same way,” says Arnold.