Naser Daher, of Durham’s Old Farm neighborhood, carries his belongings through floodwaters near the Eno River in Durham on ...

Heat waves are becoming commonplace, and so too is high humidity, which can strain the electrical grid, hurt the economy, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. First, let’s define relative humidity.

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 ...

The U.S. may face a future marked by diminished water availability, deteriorating crop yields and worsening droughts if ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...

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

There is probably no weather element so poorly understood as humidity. Of course, we know it is humid when we feel sticky, but most people do not understand how humidity is quantified. What we call ...

AccuWeather’s new study released today has been compiled based on official government weather stations in 44 regions of the ...

A new report by AccuWeather shows several climate trends that meterologists warn could have “major impacts" on health and ...

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 ...