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Expect sunny skies. The high will reach 30° on this breezy day. Amount of moisture present in the air relative to the maximum amount of moisture the air can contain at its current temperature.

Relative humidity measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.

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