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 ...

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 ...

A late spring cold snap that broke dozens of temperature records in Northern states isn’t an indication that the summer ahead will be cooler than average in the United States. Over the next week the ...

It may seem that July has delivered an interminable run of humid days, with dew points holding at near tropical levels. It is true that this month has been a scorcher. Triple-digit heat indices have ...

The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...