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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temps will be warmer Tuesday with a few storms possible. Highs will try to get back to the lower 80s. Our Next Weather Maker will be strong to severe storms moving in on Thursday. After the heat and ...