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 ...
Why is it that when it's raining, the relative humidity isn't 100%?
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.
INDIANAPOLIS — Despite how it sounds, relative humidity isn’t a great measure of how humid it feels outside. That’s why, when it’s muggy, meteorologists talk about dew point temperature instead.
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 ...
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