While you can’t change the humidity levels outdoors, you can take steps to control humidity levels inside your home. This can improve your comfort and health, and can even prevent damage to home ...

Keeping your home’s humidity in the 40% to 60% range could make it harder for flu viruses to spread.

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MOLINE, Ill. — Many of us have switched on the furnace for the first time this fall season and that's a trend that will likely continue heading into the remaining weeks of October. With each passing ...

The air inside your home does more than you might think. Whether it feels too dry in winter or too sticky in summer, indoor humidity plays a major role in your comfort, your health, and even the ...

You can stop winter moisture from damaging your walls, windows, and finishes by airing rooms briefly and regularly. Opening ...

Engineers now have two multifunctional transmitters at their fingertips for measuring relative humidity and temperature. The HT737 is a digital unit that measures relative humidity, temperature, dew ...

The hygrometer is the instrument that measures relative humidity, the humidity is relative to the air temperature. This can confuse people because if you hold the ACTUAL water vapor constant but heat ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of the Royal Society, researchers found that indoor relative humidity (RH) modulates the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks, and ...

FARGO — Every winter around holiday time, most of us begin to become annoyed by our own dry, cracked and irritated skin. We blame the colder weather this time of year, but the real problem is not ...

Q: My husband and I just moved from Reno, Nevada, to Baytown, Texas, and the humidity here is high, even indoors. What's the ideal home humidity level indoors, and is there anything we can do to feel ...