RALEIGH — NC Central didn't pose much of a threat to NC State in the season opener, as the Wolfpack routed the Eagles 114-66 in one of the more dominant offensive showings in program history.

Tuesday’s cold front helped set the stage for a cooler and less humid Wednesday in Houston. However, the downright pleasant weather will be short-lived as humidity returns later this week. But that ...

Whether stemming from a wound, a toothache or an infection like the flu, nearly everyone has experienced the discomfort of having a fever. While fevers can be inconvenient and are sometimes a sign of ...

While high temperatures will remain in the 80s, lower dew points will make it feel more comfortable and less oppressive. The cooler, drier air is tied to a low-pressure system off the coast that is ...

October has arrived, but this week’s 90-degree heat won’t have you rushing to the pumpkin patch. With high pressure flexing through Thursday, Houston’s temperatures are set to climb into the mid-90s.

We all know what the air temperature is, and the dewpoint is the temperature to which the air must be cooled for saturation to occur. The mathematical difference between those two numbers is called ...

Relative humidity measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.

Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...

Hot summers are nothing new for much of the United States, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an ...

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 ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.