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, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Many people around Pittsburgh are used to using "relative humidity" to determine how muggy it may, or may not, feel. Using relative humidity is not the best way to do it. While ...

Humidity can make or break a summer day. A sunny day with a temperature of 85 degrees can feel pleasant when the humidity stays low, but once the humidity cranks up, that same day can become ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — You see it all the time. The humidity is 100%! So humid! Air you can wear! While that may be true *at times*, it doesn't paint the full picture. When humidity is expressed as a ...

It’s a T-shirt kind of day in Washington, DC: 85 degrees with 63 percent humidity. We all know those numbers mean hot, but what exactly does that humidity percentage tell us? And why should we care?

When referring to the mugginess of the air, meteorologists will point to dew point rather than relative humidity. Relative humidity is indeed a measure of how much moisture is in the air relative to ...

A researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, has suggested a very simple formula for converting between the relative humidity and the dew point temperature without needing ...

When you watch your First Alert Forecast, you may hear the meteorologist reference the dew point temperature in reference to how humid or how comfortable the air might feel to you. Viewers have asked ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- You may have noticed that in our broadcasts here on CBS3, we constantly refer to a thing called the "dewpoint" during the summer months. Many have asked "what about the relative ...