Whether a summer day is great or awful often comes down to the humidity.

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

The amount of water vapor in the air – humidity – profoundly alters our experience of the environment around us. A hot, dry morning in the desert of California feels miles apart from a hot, sticky one ...

A hygrometer just might be the key to maintaining a consistent and comfortable humidity level in your home — for yourself, pets, family, plants, or anything else that might benefit from having a ...