I know in Houston, we hear the term humidity which is used to correlate to how muggy it may feel outside. But what actually is humidity and what does it represent? Humidity is the measurement of water ...

Naser Daher, of Durham’s Old Farm neighborhood, carries his belongings through floodwaters near the Eno River in Durham on ...

Across much of the world, hotter days are no longer arriving alone. The air itself is changing, sometimes turning from dry ...

It may seem that July has delivered an interminable run of humid days, with dew points holding at near tropical levels. It is true that this month has been a scorcher. Triple-digit heat indices have ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

Relative humidity measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Stuffy, stifling, muggy, sultry, sticky, steamy, oppressive: call it what you like, but Summertime humidity is in! To better understand the suffocating nature of high humidity, ...

Lansing, Mich. (WLNS) — You have probably heard the phrase “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” popping up in a few conversations over the last week or so. But is it? Summer is known for the ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...

The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...