July wasn’t an extremely hot month, but it was very muggy. Most Michigan cities had a Top 10 muggiest July. One city had its second muggiest July on record. To rank mugginess, we need to look at the ...

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.

Going on a run or planning a Fourth of July extravaganza and curious about how muggy it's going to be out? If so, we have just the ticket for you in this encore episode. Former Short Wave co-host ...

When you stepped outside during the current heat wave, you might have noticed a stifling, moist heat - particularly jarring if you were coming from an air-conditioned environment. The culprit? An ...

Welcome to the launch of our Boston Globe Weather Mailbag, where we sift through readers’ weather questions and answer them weekly. You can submit questions on everything from “Does it snow in May?” ...