NORFOLK, Va. — The old saying goes “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!” And while that may be true, it’s only half of the story. It’s the “dew point” that really matters. But what is the dew point?
Maybe you have heard it said that it is not the heat, but the humidity that makes it so darn hot. Actually, it is the dewpoint or the measure of the amount of moisture in the air that makes it feel so ...
A recent stretch of warm and muggy weather has brought extreme heat to much of the United States, including here in the Sunshine State. All one has to do is turn on a newscast to hear a meteorologist ...
It’s that time of year when the lexicon of the meteorologist regularly includes the phrase dew point. This concept is often confused with relative humidity which doesn’t tell us anything about how you ...
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 ...
As August kicks off, South Carolina residents are again under a heat advisory with temperatures that could feel like 108 degrees. Like much of the Southeast, Upstate residents will see the heat index ...
While it's not officially summer yet, it certainly feels like it around Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Temperatures in Milwaukee are forecast to be in the upper 80s and low 90s Thursday and into the weekend ...
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