When Floridians talk about extreme weather, hurricanes dominate the conversation. Each season brings updates on storm tracks, ...

Across much of the world, hotter days are no longer arriving alone. The air itself is changing, sometimes turning from dry ...

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Even in early October, warm and humid weather is part of life in Houston — but a weak cold front could finally mean cooler days ahead. Houston’s official climate site at Bush Intercontinental recorded ...

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.

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 ...

Extreme heat can be hard on your heart. As temperatures rise, the heart pumps faster to move blood toward the skin to cool the body. This added strain on the cardiovascular system can increase the ...

Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...

We’ll be discussing the difference between dew point and relative humidity in this edition of Weather Tidbits. Both of these weather parameters describe moisture in the air, but represent very ...

Well, sort of. Today will see a high temperature that will be hotter than yesterday's 91°. I have Pittsburgh seeing a high of 93°. The hottest of the year so far happened on the 24th of last month ...

Background Global warming is expected to increase the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The effects of climate variability on sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) have not been studied in ...

The heat index, or apparent temperature, combines air temperature and humidity to indicate how hot it feels to the body. High humidity slows sweating, the body's natural cooling system, making ...