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 ...

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.

Naser Daher, of Durham’s Old Farm neighborhood, carries his belongings through floodwaters near the Eno River in Durham on ...

Across much of the world, hotter days are no longer arriving alone. The air itself is changing, sometimes turning from dry ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has noticeably dialed up the Eastern United States’ humidity in recent decades, an ...

Lansing, Mich. (WLNS) — You have probably heard the phrase “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” popping up in a few conversations over the last week or so. But is it? Summer is known for the ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...

This week’s big weather story will be decreasing humidity. It is going to be a painfully slow wait for southern Michigan to get into more comfy air. The cooler air will be brought by a cold front ...

A heat advisory has been issued for all of New Jersey on Thursday, with temperatures expected to reach the low to mid 90s and heat indexes potentially climbing to 100 to 105 degrees. The heat advisory ...