“Relative humidity”, in a gross over-simplification, is the amount of moisture present in the air compared to how much moisture COULD be present at a given temperature. True meteorologists will ...

It is now officially the start of the summer season and we’ve been feeling the muggy conditions already in Eastern Iowa. When it gets hot, you may hear us use the terms dew point, relative humidity, ...

Dew point is the temperature at which the air becomes “saturated” – in other words, it is holding all the water vapor it possibly can. If the temperature and the dew point equal each other, the water ...