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 ...

why do meteorologists use dew point rather than relative humidity to describe the uncomfortableness or oppressiveness of an air mass? Dew point is the temperature at which the air becomes “saturated” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. First, let’s define relative humidity.

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 ...

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 ...

“It is so cold I can see my breath.” How many times have you ever heard someone say this? To begin with, it is actually the relative humidity of the air you exhale that causes it to become visible.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — You see it all the time. The humidity is 100%! So humid! Air you can wear! While that may be true *at times*, it doesn't paint the full picture. When humidity is expressed as a ...

(WHTM) — When temperatures rise, sometimes the air can feel dry and comfortable. But, sometimes it can feel downright tropical outside. This is caused by moisture in the air and it makes the air ...

Most of the time when it is raining the relative humidity is 90-99 percent, but not often is it 100 percent. Clouds form when invisible water vapor gas condenses into visible water droplets, and rain ...