ICK
June 8th, 2009 at 5:19 pm by Cheryl Nelson under Weather
If you were watching WAVY News 10 over the weekend, you probably heard our weekend anchor, Lori Crouch, say “ick” to my 7-day forecast. ;) Although I like beach weather, I’m not a fan of really humid weather. Neither is Lori.
I’ve written about humidity and bad hair days before. If your hair wasn’t perfect today, I don’t think it’ll get better this week if you spend a lot of time outside. If you’re curious as to why, read on…
I blame the dewpoint temperature. The dewpoint measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere: the higher the number, the more uncomfortable we feel. The higher the dewpoint, the more difficult it becomes to tame our hair.
Here’s a “dewpoint decoder” that I came up with:
< 60 Comfortable
60-65 A Bit Muggy
65-70 Quite Humid
> 70 Oppressive
This week our dewpoints will be in the “quite humid/oppressive categories.” The best thing to do to try to beat the humidity is to drink plenty of water and stay indoors in air conditioning if possible. To fix a bad hair day, we can try hair spray, unless you have any other ideas?
Do you have a secret for fixing a bad hair day? Post a reply and let us know. Thanks! 
Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson