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If you get your current weather information in the morning, you should know that the morning relative humidity is not a useful indicator of how humid the weather will be today. In fact, the relative ...
Before you step outside, you may want to know how humid, or "sticky" it feels. That comes down to knowing the dew point. Dew point is more commonly discussed in the summertime and is a good measure of ...
You may have noticed that humidity (the amount of water vapor in the air) makes a difference in how comfortable you feel outside. When the humidity is high in the summer we say it is "muggy." When it ...
My high school had a weather station on the roof so earth-science students could make measurements each morning. We climbed up a ladder in the janitor's closet, went through a hatch and out onto the ...
Of all common environmental parameters, humidity is perhaps the least understood and most difficult to measure. The most common electronic humidity detection methods, albeit highly accurate, are not ...
Wondering what humidity is comfortable? While we often give a great deal of thought to heating our homes in the winter and cooling them down in the summer, we may not realize just how crucial ...
Engineers now have two multifunctional transmitters at their fingertips for measuring relative humidity and temperature. The HT737 is a digital unit that measures ...