Understanding the difference between humidity and moisture.

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Let’s start with this... it gets humid every summer. Yes, we know. But has this summer felt like the humidity hasn’t let up much and we aren’t getting as many comfortable days?

Dew point is a common phrase during the summertime, but what exactly is it? Put simply, the dew point is the temperature the air needs to cool to to become fully saturated. On any given day, there is ...

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.

July wasn’t an extremely hot month, but it was very muggy. Most Michigan cities had a Top 10 muggiest July. One city had its second muggiest July on record. To rank mugginess, we need to look at the ...

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 ...

I know in Houston, we hear the term humidity which is used to correlate to how muggy it may feel outside. But what actually is humidity and what does it represent? Humidity is the measurement of water ...

High humidity has certainly been the weather talk lately. We have some comfortable air to enjoy in the short term, but high humidity is again right around the corner. The cold front has moved through ...