On 8/15/2011 12:43 PM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
> Well, that depends. In many (most?) places, there isn't a ready supply
> of moisture to be taken up by the atmosphere, beyond plant respiration
> or something like that.
Ah. We have standing water all over the place here. You see, we don't
'do' storm sewers here, we just build holding ponds for all that water.
Also called 'Florida Mosquito Breeding Pools'.
Though, come to think of it, this is the first year in maybe a decade
that we haven't experienced drought conditions all summer. And those
summers, the humidity hovered near 100% too. Well, okay, to be less
hyperbolic, it usually stays in the mid-80-percent, but it will go up
frequently.
It's insane here. A lot.
> Depends on where "here" is. If you live next to a large body of water,
> then yes, that's possibly the case. But what happens to all that water
> as the air cools? Must be like a rain forest.
It is, in fact, just like subtropical rain forest here. I mean, it
varies, but it's never actually 'dry' here.
> I just bet it feels "oppressive and sticky. And then some. Anyway, I
> was just generally trying to describe the difference between Relative
> Humidity, which is, well, relative, and moisture content of the air as
> a volume/volume relation; and thus why running the compressor in the
> morning vs. afternoon might not make much difference. Jeff Scarbrough
> Atmospheric Physics Acres, Ga.
Naw, I'm with you. I'm not sure how much difference it would make
morning versus afternoon.
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