There are several ways to combat humidity. The first and easiest is to invest in a dehumidifier for the main rooms in your house. This appliance will suck the moisture from the air, creating a more comfortable environment.
You can also purchase moisture absorbing packs to place in high-humidity areas like doorways and bathrooms. Your HVAC system should also help keep humidity levels low. Many modern air conditioning units are equipped with an evaporator coil that can reduce the amount of water vapor in the air. The collected moisture will then be transported away from your home via drain or piping. An inspection will ensure that all of these conditions are met.
Sunshine, vacations and great weather are all part of what makes summer so great. It should be a season to enjoy, but humidity can definitely put a damper on your good mood. Follow the advice above to lower the humidity levels in your home, and call an HVAC specialist to help you find more ways to keep your home cool and comfortable all season long. We are glad you're here to Wonder with us! Hey there, Wonder Friend Amme! We are so glad you learned all about humidity and how it's measured!
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Wonder What's Next? Try It Out Ready to get some hands-on experience with humidity? Find a friend or family member to help you explore one or more of the following activities: Spend some time watching local weather forecasts. You can watch them on television on the nightly news. Or, if you prefer, you can read them in a local paper or even find them online at a variety of weather information sites.
Do you understand all the weather-related terms the forecasters use? If not, ask an adult to help you understand what any unfamiliar terms mean. Keep an eye on the weather the next day. How accurate was the forecast? You've probably felt how a hot day can feel even hotter when it's really humid outside.
Here's a little experiment that will help you understand why. Soak a washcloth in a bowl of warm water. Wring out the water so that none drips out but the washcloth is still warm. Feel the warmth of the washcloth. Now wave the washcloth around in the air for a bit.
When you're finished, feel the washcloth again. Does it feel cooler? It should. As moisture evaporates, it carries heat with it. When you waved the washcloth around in the air, water evaporated from it, taking heat with it and making the washcloth cooler.
A similar thing happens in the air. When water vapor remains in the air as humidity, it makes the temperature feel warmer. As the humidity lowers, the air feels cooler! Can you really feel the difference when relative humidity fluctuates? Keep track and see for yourself. Over the course of a few weeks, keep a daily weather log. Record the actual temperature and the relative humidity. Also record how the weather feels to you.
Before finding out what the actual temperature and relative humidity are, make a guess as to what temperature you think it is. How accurate are your guesses? Do your guesses tend to vary with the relative humidity? If you're up for a real challenge, create a graph that compares your guesses with the relative humidity for each day to see if there's a correlation. Did you get it?
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Ok so heres the questions, which one comes first the egg or the chicken? Apr 1, Thank you so much for this article! Have a great day!! It refers to the fact that high humidity makes it feel hotter than the actual air temperature. The answer — evaporation. Our body produces sweat to help keep us cool, but that only works if the sweat evaporates, because evaporation is a cooling process. So when the relative humidity of the air is high, meaning the air has a high moisture content, the sweat evaporation process slows down.
The result? It feels hotter to you.
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