PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Oftentimes in weathercasts, you'll hear KDKA-TV's First Alert meteorologists mention the relative humidity and dew point, but what are these two terms and what do they mean?
A powerful cold front dropped humidity-driven dew point temperatures by nearly 20 degrees in one hour at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston’s official climate observation site, as storms rumbled ...
The dew point is the temperature the air needs to be cooled to in order to achieve a relative humidity (RH) of 100%. The higher the dew point rises, the greater the amount of moisture in the air.