Is ambient humidity sabotaging your bakes? I ran a home experiment on flour's water absorption and then did the math so you ...

There will be a palpable tension hanging over the back fields of the George M. Steinbrenner Field complex, where the […] ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...

More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has noticeably dialed up the Eastern United States’ humidity in recent decades, an ...

Hot, sticky and unrelenting: That has been the experience for much of the country this summer, including more than a dozen states that had record high humidity in July. Last month was muggier than ...

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 ...

It’s not just the heat that’s dangerous — it’s the humidity. For around 150 million people across 34 states, as well as parts of southern Canada, it was more humid than Miami late Monday as a brutal ...

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 ...