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.

If you think this summer has felt extra sticky and sweltering hot in Ohio and Kentucky, you're not alone. Greater Cincinnati has spent much of the summer trying to stay cool, as the area has been ...

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 ...

Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...

We’ll be discussing the difference between dew point and relative humidity in this edition of Weather Tidbits. Both of these weather parameters describe moisture in the air, but represent very ...

There are high temperatures and high relative humidity but no rain in Laredo’s forecast, putting the city on pace to finish with a dry July. The chances of rain will not reach higher than 5% through ...

Abstract: Accurate, timely, and wide-ranging radar quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) is crucial for effective water resource management and climate research. However, the insufficient ...

National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China ...

In this article, the authors propose changes to a microwave system for measuring the relative humidity of hollow concrete blocks presented in the literature, aiming to improve the system’s sensitivity ...

The short answer is both terms are different and describe different things about moisture in the air. The dew point is another temperature value. It is the temperature air needs to cool to become ...