Finding the right indoor humidity keeps your family healthy, your home protected, and your air feeling fresh all year.

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 ...

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 ...

Humidifiers add moisture, which is like a ‘heavy blanket’ that brings viruses to the ground level, away from noses and mouths ...

With another round of excessive heat pushing through New England as numerous towns and cities are facing the third heat wave of the season, the unbearable humidity has more and more people asking why ...

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.

From condensation on your windows to mold spores on your walls, the common signs of high humidity in your home aren't hard to ...

Dew point/relative humidity questions come up fairly often and this is a good one. Water vapor in the atmosphere is pretty important for deep-sky observing and photography. The atmosphere can only ...

Before you step outside, you may want to know how humid, or "sticky" it feels. That comes down to knowing the dew point. Dew point is more commonly discussed in the summertime and is a good measure of ...