Understanding the difference between humidity and moisture.

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.

Why do meteorologists like to use dew points so much instead of relative humidity? It's because it measures the true moisture content in the atmosphere. Do you ever wonder why meteorologists always ...

Is wet bulb temperature the same as dew point? Mike Moss: In a saturated air parcel (with relative humidity 100%) the wet bulb, dry bulb and dew point temperatures are all the same. In a drier parcel ...