A small, white box with horizontal slats is a familiar sight at weather stations around the UK, and around the world. This louvered housing for thermometers measuring air temperature was invented in ...

Devices used to measure the wet-bulb temperature include a dry-bulb thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer and globe thermometer. The National Weather Service recommends the wet-bulb temperature for anyone ...

FOX13 has been studying the data behind a winter weather system for several days now, focusing on all the small variables that play into the forecast. One variable does not have to do with the clouds ...

As recent fervor for storm chasing and the national pastime of doubting meteorological predictions demonstrates, weather can be a tricky beast to pin down. To truly wrangle it and capture its data, ...

Austin temperatures on Thursday are expected to hit 101 degrees, while the muggy air will make it feel more like 104. We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” to describe ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – There are several ways to measure the severity of a winter season. The News10NBC First Alert meteorologists often consider the average temperature, wind chill values, or total ...

Before you step outside, you may want to know how humid, or "sticky" it feels. That comes down to knowing the dew point. Dew point is more commonly discussed in the summertime and is a good measure of ...

FARGO — It seems simple enough to hold a thermometer out in the sun in order to get the temperature “in the sun,” but this is fundamentally wrong. Air is not heated up very much by sunlight. The rays ...

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There are thousands of weather stations across every corner of the country recording values such as temperature, pressure, moisture, and of course, precipitation. But how do meteorologists measure ...