Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

The heat index, or apparent temperature, combines air temperature and humidity to indicate how hot it feels to the body. High humidity slows sweating, the body's natural cooling system, making ...

I know in Houston, we hear the term humidity which is used to correlate to how muggy it may feel outside. But what actually is humidity and what does it represent? Humidity is the measurement of water ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Cruising past a cornfield, you may not realize just how much moisture enters our atmosphere surrounding an area of farmland. Ohio farmers planted 3.25 million acres of corn ...

Temperatures this week are some of the hottest we have seen the entire year now as we get to the end of July. This is a perfect opportunity to explain what the Heat Index is and how it is all ...