Weather stations, whether manual or automatic, are the unsung heroes of meteorology. Through a blend of scientific principles and technological innovations, they provide us with real-time weather ...

If you get your current weather information in the morning, you should know that the morning relative humidity is not a useful indicator of how humid the weather will be today. In fact, the relative ...

Every summer, I get asked this question: "Why don't you use relative humidity? I don't care about the dew point." The thing is - you should care about the dew point more. The dew point is quite ...

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 ...

Imagine you’re sitting among friends on the porch with a big pitcher of ice cold lemonade. The heat is searing and the air is still and stifling. It’s almost hard to breathe. You look to your friends ...

Heat is only part of the picture. Here’s why humid air makes us irritable and exhausted — and how you can cope. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Q: Humidity ...