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 ...

Stepping outside and feeling the thick wall of humidity has been a constant occurrence through the beginning of summer. The ...

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

A stretch of warm, muggy weather continues in New Hampshire, though some changes are on the way. The start of summer has ...

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.

Dew point/relative humidity questions come up fairly often and this is a good one. Water vapor in the atmosphere is pretty important for deep-sky observing and photography.