Humidity
noun
The amount of water vapor in the air.
The humidity is so high today that I'm sweating just sitting here.
Often appears as...
- high humidity
- low humidity
noun
A state of being humid or having a lot of moisture in the air.
Tropical regions have a high level of humidity.
Often appears as...
- tropical humidity
- indoor humidity
noun
The amount of water vapor in the air.
The humidity is so high today that I'm sweating just sitting here.
Often appears as...
- high humidity
- low humidity
noun
A state of being humid or having a lot of moisture in the air.
Tropical regions have a high level of humidity.
Often appears as...
- tropical humidity
- indoor humidity
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Pro Tip 1/3Measurable Quantity
Humidity can be measured using percentages called 'relative humidity'.
The weather report stated that the relative humidity would be around 75% tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensation of Heaviness
High humidity makes air feel heavy and can make breathing feel more difficult.
The humidity was so high during the hike, it felt like I was breathing water.
Pro Tip 3/3Affects Perception
Describing humidity often conveys how comfortable or uncomfortable a place feels.
I didn't enjoy the picnic because the high humidity made me feel sticky the whole time.
Pro Tip 1/3Measurable Quantity
Humidity can be measured using percentages called 'relative humidity'.
The weather report stated that the relative humidity would be around 75% tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensation of Heaviness
High humidity makes air feel heavy and can make breathing feel more difficult.
The humidity was so high during the hike, it felt like I was breathing water.
Pro Tip 3/3Affects Perception
Describing humidity often conveys how comfortable or uncomfortable a place feels.
I didn't enjoy the picnic because the high humidity made me feel sticky the whole time.
Pro Tip 1/3Measurable Quantity
Humidity can be measured using percentages called 'relative humidity'.
The weather report stated that the relative humidity would be around 75% tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensation of Heaviness
High humidity makes air feel heavy and can make breathing feel more difficult.
The humidity was so high during the hike, it felt like I was breathing water.
Pro Tip 3/3Affects Perception
Describing humidity often conveys how comfortable or uncomfortable a place feels.
I didn't enjoy the picnic because the high humidity made me feel sticky the whole time.
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The Reality Behind...
And that's just from where she hasn't been kept to the right temperatures and the right humidity. So she hasn't been able to shed her skin when she needs to. And actually got to the point where she had so many layers of shed around her armpits and stuff that they started to split open a little bit, and she had to go to the vets and have that kind of cleaned up
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What happens when you...
And your body can dissipate the heat as quickly as it's generated through cooling methods like the evaporation of sweat. But with uncompensable heat stress, your body is unable to lose enough heat due to overexertion or high temperatures in humidity, which raises your core temperature beyond normal levels.
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How the pandemic will...
Is there evidence that the hotter temperatures of the summer actually have been helping us? They're not absolutely sure, but certainly, the IHME model definitely wanted to use the season, including temperature and humidity, to try and explain why May wasn't worse than it was.
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Creating materials...
materials and give a life to it I enjoy giving life to natural materials in a scientific way and mix it with technologies the technology can be as simple as heat humidity moisture and electrical impulses combined eight of these technologies with nature
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
We've talked a little about the heart, and let's now talk about another the liver! When humid air, high humidity and radiation are combined with these organic compounds, which I call exogenous vitamin C, generous vitamin C in the form of gas,
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Deserts 101 PIPE National...
and soar through the sky, revealing a landscape not as lifeless as it might first appear. Deserts are often defined as areas of land that receive less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. These regions are low in humidity
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Reveal Earth's...
Australia is one of the largest waves in the world it can reach to over a mile high it's a solitary tropospheric wave that combined with the humidity in the region takes a form of a visible cloud
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How to green the world's...
Why has it accelerated lately? We had no understanding of that. What we had failed to understand was that these seasonal humidity environments of the world, the soil and the vegetation
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Fossil Found in Kitchen...
because they're very sensitive to temperature and climate they don't move very far during their lifetime so they're a very good indicator of relative humidity rainfall things like that
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Let's scan the whole...
but I was wrong. For the first time in my life, I might add. First of all, it's freezing. It's 90 degrees, but you're soaking wet from the humidity,
Video examples
The Reality Behind...
And that's just from where she hasn't been kept to the right temperatures and the right humidity. So she hasn't been able to shed her skin when she needs to. And actually got to the point where she had so many layers of shed around her armpits and stuff that they started to split open a little bit, and she had to go to the vets and have that kind of cleaned up
Video examples
What happens when you...
And your body can dissipate the heat as quickly as it's generated through cooling methods like the evaporation of sweat. But with uncompensable heat stress, your body is unable to lose enough heat due to overexertion or high temperatures in humidity, which raises your core temperature beyond normal levels.
Video examples
How the pandemic will...
Is there evidence that the hotter temperatures of the summer actually have been helping us? They're not absolutely sure, but certainly, the IHME model definitely wanted to use the season, including temperature and humidity, to try and explain why May wasn't worse than it was.
Video examples
Creating materials...
materials and give a life to it I enjoy giving life to natural materials in a scientific way and mix it with technologies the technology can be as simple as heat humidity moisture and electrical impulses combined eight of these technologies with nature
Video examples
Antonio Donato Nobre:...
We've talked a little about the heart, and let's now talk about another the liver! When humid air, high humidity and radiation are combined with these organic compounds, which I call exogenous vitamin C, generous vitamin C in the form of gas,
Video examples
Deserts 101 PIPE National...
and soar through the sky, revealing a landscape not as lifeless as it might first appear. Deserts are often defined as areas of land that receive less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. These regions are low in humidity
Video examples
Reveal Earth's...
Australia is one of the largest waves in the world it can reach to over a mile high it's a solitary tropospheric wave that combined with the humidity in the region takes a form of a visible cloud
Video examples
How to green the world's...
Why has it accelerated lately? We had no understanding of that. What we had failed to understand was that these seasonal humidity environments of the world, the soil and the vegetation
Video examples
Fossil Found in Kitchen...
because they're very sensitive to temperature and climate they don't move very far during their lifetime so they're a very good indicator of relative humidity rainfall things like that
Video examples
Let's scan the whole...
but I was wrong. For the first time in my life, I might add. First of all, it's freezing. It's 90 degrees, but you're soaking wet from the humidity,
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Akira Toriyama
Japanese Artist
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.
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Jaco Pastorius
American Musician
I had an upright - it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it. I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner, and the bass is in a hundred pieces 'cause the humidity is so bad. I mean, the upright just blew up. I said, 'Forget it, man. I can't afford this anymore.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
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Hendrik Poinar
Dutch Scientist
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
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John Glover
American Actor
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
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Stefanie Powers
American Actress
Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
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Evan Sayet
American Comedian
Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
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Shakira
Musician
I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
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Bjork
Musician
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Quote examples
Akira Toriyama
Japanese Artist
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.
Quote examples
Jaco Pastorius
American Musician
I had an upright - it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it. I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner, and the bass is in a hundred pieces 'cause the humidity is so bad. I mean, the upright just blew up. I said, 'Forget it, man. I can't afford this anymore.
Quote examples
Erin Brockovich
American Activist
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
Quote examples
Hendrik Poinar
Dutch Scientist
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
Quote examples
John Glover
American Actor
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
Quote examples
Johnny Depp
American Actor
There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
Quote examples
Stefanie Powers
American Actress
Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
Quote examples
Evan Sayet
American Comedian
Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
Quote examples
Shakira
Musician
I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
Quote examples
Bjork
Musician
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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