When referring to the mugginess of the air, meteorologists will point to dew point rather than relative humidity. Relative humidity is indeed a measure of how much moisture is in the air relative to ...

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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” ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – There might not be a more misunderstood phrase in meteorology than “relative humidity.” Every summer when humidity returns, this phrase echoes across the United States: “It ...

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 ...

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There are various ways to measure the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. The amount of moisture a given parcel of air can hold is dependent on the ambient temperature. Higher temperatures mean ...

FIGURE 1. Relative indoor humidity (violet) and absolute exterior humidity (orange) displayed over 26 months. For the majority of winter months, rh ranged between 35 and 60 percent. December 10, 2018 ...

Industry leaders realized hundreds of years ago that their processes and machines operate best when the indoor relative humidity is maintained at an optimum level for their process. They found it was ...