When our Storm Track 8 Weather Team talks about muggy conditions, they usually refer to the dew point rather than humidity. The dew point is typically a better measure of the atmosphere. It's the ...
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Let’s start with this... it gets humid every summer. Yes, we know. But has this summer felt like the humidity hasn’t let up much and we aren’t getting as many comfortable days?
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As a heat wave takes over a large portion of the country, many are bracing for muggy conditions, especially those nearby corn fields. The phenomenon known as “corn sweat” ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...
Hot summers are nothing new for much of the United States, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an ...
It's been a summer of above-average dew points so far in the Twin Cities, with an average of 60.21 combined for the months of June and July. That's the fifth-highest since 1938. St. Cloud and ...
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.
The dew point temperature is measured using a Buck research 1011C chilled mirror hygrometer and is a base measurement available on all King Air deployments. Chilled mirror operating principles are ...