Humidifiers can help your skin, sleep and overall health, but if they are not cleaned properly, that can lead to the spread ...

Consumer Reports provides maintenance tips to keep humidifiers clean and functioning properly during the winter season, and ...

Winter is coming, and between the cold outdoors and the dry air radiating from your heaters, you’ll need backup from the best ...

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 ...

Metro Denver was smacked with unusual high humidity Tuesday morning. 9News Senior Meteorologist Chris Bianchi posted on social media around 6:30 a.m. that the dew point in the Mile High City was 66 ...

The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dew point/relative humidity questions come up fairly often and this is a good one. Water vapor in the atmosphere is pretty important for deep-sky observing and photography. The atmosphere can only ...

The short answer is both terms are different and describe different things about moisture in the air. The dew point is another temperature value. It is the temperature air needs to cool to become ...