Relative humidity is expressed as a percentage, whereas the dew point is expressed in degrees.

Summer is here, and heat and humidity have arrived.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - When summer arrives, meteorologists talk about both humidity and dew point. While the two are related, they are not the same thing. Relative humidity is a percentage that ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - As critical fire danger spreads across the region through spring, understanding one simple weather concept could make the difference: dew point. Relative Humidity (or RH) ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) -As summer approaches the First Alert Weather Team will be talking more about the dew point temperature. It’s a great number to use to help you understand how it will feel ...

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.

Meteorologists have been focusing on dew point rather than relative humidity to describe how muggy it feels outside during recent hot and humid weather. While both measurements describe moisture in ...

Meteorologist Sara Tonks: Webster's Dictionary defines "humid" as "containing or characterized by perceptible moisture, especially to the point of being oppressive". And that is part of the problem.