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 how you ...

Some of you live in notoriously muggy climates, especially in the peak of summer's heat. But on July 8, 2003, 22 years ago today, a Middle East city experienced a stifling air mass unlike any ...

It’s a hot summer day and you hear someone say, “The relative humidity is 80%!” They’re probably correct, but relative humidity is just not a good way to measure how muggy the air “feels” to our ...