PORTLAND (WGME) -- Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived. However, it’s important not to use relative humidity to determine how humid it is outside. You may have heard somebody say, “The ...
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 ...
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.