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.

It may seem that July has delivered an interminable run of humid days, with dew points holding at near tropical levels. It is true that this month has been a scorcher. Triple-digit heat indices have ...

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 ...

Factors as far away as the Caribbean Sea and as nearby as the cornfields of Iowa can bring on that muggy, sticky feeling. For people with certain health conditions, it’s more than an annoyance. Joy ...

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 ...

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The results show that humidity makes heat much more dangerous for pregnant women and for child health later in life. People ...

The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it's become cliché to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther ...

Has this summer been muggier than usual? For nearly two-thirds of the country, the answer is yes. Tens of millions of Americans in the central and eastern United States have suffered from an ...

After our almost fall-like morning lows in the 50s and 60s, we warm to the low 80s on Sunday. Sunday will be sunny and pleasant with the same low humidity we've seen since the beginning of the weekend ...