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 ...

Tonight features an isolated risk for a downpour before midnight. With light winds, recent rainfall and clearing skies, patchy dense fog will form, which could reduce visibilities to below a quarter ...

MICHIGAN, USA — July has been a warmer-than-usual month so far, and even warmer air is on the way. A couple of comfortable and seasonable days are expected on Monday and Tuesday. Highs early this week ...

WASHINGTON — As the first heat wave of the season takes hold, people might be hearing a lot about "feels-like" temperatures. For example, WUSA9 meteorologists say at 4 p.m. Monday, the temperature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...