The state of Florida is synonymous with the word hot. We do have occasional cold snaps, but then it’s right back to business as usual.
Believe it or not, during a lot of these cooler days, the temperature really hasn’t changed too much. But yet when we step outside, regardless of the time of day, it feels noticeably nicer. It may even warrant dusting the cob webs off your car’s heater dial!
So why exactly is it we can have 85-degree weather every day for a full week, yet some days feel hotter and others colder? The answer doesn’t lie in the temperature particularly, but the moisture in the air. The moisture being the “humidity.”
Humidity by itself is simply water in the air. For us meteorologists, we look at humidity and another value called “dew point” to determine whether we will see clouds, scattered showers or maybe even some occasional thunder and lightning.
Moisture is a pivotal piece of all things weather, from forming your daily afternoon showers to manifesting a full-fledged tropical hurricane.