LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - This week, our First Alert Weather Team is tracking a shift in our humidity to a more dry set-up - but different levels of humidity can actually affect your breathing. Humidity ...

Alongside news of record-breaking heat waves and summer storms, you may have seen a few headlines about a curious phenomenon known as corn sweat. As temperatures climb, the millions of acres of corn ...

You’ve probably heard people say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” There’s a lot of truth to that phrase, and it’s important to understand it as summer temperatures rise. Humidity doesn’t just ...

Temperature alone may miss the real danger: this study shows that humidity can sharply raise health risks during both hot and cold weather, with climate change likely to make these compound threats ...

As humidity sets in across the region, raising temperatures into the 90s and even 100s across the Midwest, corn may be partly to blame for the humidity. Corn sweat describes the moisture released into ...

Aerosols—suspended particles in the atmosphere—interact with sunlight and exert a critical influence on climate, air quality and visibility. Their optical properties include scattering, absorption and ...

Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing rising temperatures brought on by climate change, but how much relief from the heat island effect do they provide when humidity is factored in ...

During the day, green spaces are cooler than the surrounding built-up areas, but this effect is often counterbalanced by increased humidity. Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing ...