NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - When summer arrives, meteorologists talk about both humidity and dew point. While the two are related, they are not the same thing. Relative humidity is a percentage that ...

Meteorologist Paul Douglas answers reader questions about the weather and other natural phenomena every couple of weeks. Submit your own questions below. I’ve lived in other parts of the country, and ...

Relative humidity and dew point are often mistaken for the same thing, and can be sources of confusion. We have recently gotten questions about the differences between the two, and which is more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorologist Sara Tonks: Webster's Dictionary defines "humid" as "containing or characterized by perceptible moisture, especially ...

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 ...

Every summer, I get asked this question: "Why don't you use relative humidity? I don't care about the dew point." The thing is - you should care about the dew point more. The dew point is quite ...

Music fans gather at the Minnesota Country Club Festival in St. Paul on July 10. As meteorologists, one of the questions we hear all the time is: “Why don't you talk about relative humidity?” After ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are multiple ways to describe how wet the air is (yes, pretty much all air is wet). What I mean by that is there are water ...

Dew point and relative humidity are related, but dew point communicates how things feel much better. That’s why we use it as the basis for our Muggy Meter we show on TV and online. It’s an absolute ...