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 ...

Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...

We’ll be discussing the difference between dew point and relative humidity in this edition of Weather Tidbits. Both of these weather parameters describe moisture in the air, but represent very ...

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 ...

Dew point/relative humidity questions come up fairly often and this is a good one. Water vapor in the atmosphere is pretty important for deep-sky observing and photography. The atmosphere can only ...

Abstract: We propose and demonstrate a relative humidity (RH) sensor based on a polarimetric fiber laser and beat frequency (BF) demodulation. The laser cavity of the proposed fiber laser sensor ...

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 ...