Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – I would like to preface ...

Mike Moss: Relative humidity is not related to temperature and dew point in quite that direct a manner, although they certainly are interdependent quantities. There are some online calculators that ...

Dew point vs. relative humidity – which is more useful to determine comfort level? Undoubtedly, the answer is the dew point temperature, but it’s not perfect in every instance. Let’s look at relative ...

There are various ways to measure the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. The amount of moisture a given parcel of air can hold is dependent on the ambient temperature. Higher temperatures mean ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - When you watch the KBTX Pinpoint Weather Team forecast a day of weather in the Brazos Valley, you may hear phrases like “95 degrees with 80 percent humidity” used. But what does ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This time of the year it is especially important that we effectively communicate the amount of moisture in the atmosphere on any given day. There are different ways of doing this, ...

When you watch your First Alert Forecast, you may hear the meteorologist reference the dew point temperature in reference to how humid or how comfortable the air might feel to you. Viewers have asked ...

The short answer: relative to the greatest amount of water vapor that can be contained in the air at a particular temperature. For example, a relative humidity reading of 50 percent means the water ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — You see it all the time. The humidity is 100%! So humid! Air you can wear! While that may be true *at times*, it doesn't paint the full picture. When humidity is expressed as a ...

What's the easiest way to determine how humid it is outside? Sometimes I hear that it's the relative humidity and others argue for the dew point. I'll take you through an example where I evaluate a ...

If you’re looking for a single number that’ll help you best determine whether or not it’s muggy outside, you’ll want to give this a read. On Tuesday afternoon, it was 71 degrees with a 56 degree ...

We get a lot of complaints about humidity. It is, after all, peak summer in D.C. — the nation’s swamp — which it turns out is hard to drain. Sometimes the complaints are about more than just the heavy ...