TOLEDO, Ohio — As warm summer days continue throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, so does the chance of hot days becoming more common over the years. Let us set the stage: you are watching ...

MOLINE, Ill. — When our Storm Track 8 Weather Team talks about muggy conditions, they usually refer to the dew point rather than humidity. The dew point is typically a better measure of the atmosphere ...

Meteorologists are explaining the difference between dew point and relative humidity to help the public better understand comfort levels and storm potential. Dew point directly measures water vapor in ...

It’s a hot summer day and you hear someone say, “The relative humidity is 80%!” They’re probably correct, but relative humidity is just not a good way to measure how muggy the air “feels” to our ...

Dew point is the temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture, causing water vapor to condense into liquid water, such as dew or fog. It serves as a measure of atmospheric moisture content ...

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, ...

This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader MaryBeth, who asks, “I used to think humidity was the reason I felt miserable in the summer, now I understand it’s dew point. How did we avoid the ...

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Here’s an even more deceiving weather situation. One day is 80 degrees and 50 percent relative humidity. Another day is 90 ...

AROUND FOR A WHILE RIGHT? INDEED, THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS, TONY. YOU CAN ALMOST SEE THE FALL LIKE WEATHER COMING IN WHEN YOU TRACK THE DEW POINT, WHICH MEASURES MOISTURE IN THE AIR. ALL THAT WARM, MUGGY ...

Mostly sunny and breezy on Thursday with the wind off of the lake. Highs in the low 70s inland, mid-60s near the lake.

Mostly clear overnight with temperatures settling in the 40s. Mostly sunny on Friday with a high around 80 inland, 74 near ...