In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in southeast Australia during an extreme heat wave. And communities ...

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

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

Abstract: Electrical machines (EMs) operated on high-voltage dc buses for contemporary transportation applications are significantly exposed to the risk of partial discharge (PD). The inception ...

While summer’s humidity is taking a break, the air in winter can be cold and dry. Dry, itchy skin, congestion, scratchy throats, and little static shocks from everything you touch have replaced the ...

Even in early October, warm and humid weather is part of life in Houston — but a weak cold front could finally mean cooler days ahead. Houston’s official climate site at Bush Intercontinental recorded ...

Relative humidity measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.

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 ...

Extreme heat can be hard on your heart. As temperatures rise, the heart pumps faster to move blood toward the skin to cool the body. This added strain on the cardiovascular system can increase the ...

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 ...