Humidity question

[ChefBilly]

What is considered 'high' humidity?
I leave in 10 days and I'm watching the 10 day forecast on weather.com. I just want to be able to guage how humid it will be.

Thanks for any info.

 

[doxdogy]

I may be wrong, but I believe it has do to with dew point and the actual temperature. The higher the dew point the higher the humidity. Also, the closeness of the dew point and the actual temperature. For example it is 85 here right now, but we have a dew point of 73. So according to weatherbug 66% humidity.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I would consider "high" humidity (hard to breathe) over 30%.

 

[mum4jenn]

The most unbearable is going to be at 80% and higher. Well....since you live so far up north probably anything above 40-50% is going to be hard on you. I live in deep south GA and we have been having 100% humidity most of teh summer which is HARD to deal with.

I am assuming you are going to FL????

 

[ChefBilly]

I am assuming you are going to FL????

Thanks for the info!
Yup, I'll be at the Boardwalk in 10 days. Basking in the insane humidity, I guess!

 

[Charade]

The dew point is when water vapor condenses on things like grass or the windshield of your car because the air is saturated with moisture. It correlates with the relative humidity which is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air at a specific temperature to the maximum amount that the air could hold at that temperature, expressed as a percentage. IOW, 90 degree air at 75 percent relative humidity is not the same as 75 percent humidity at 50 degrees. One will feel more humid than the other. You can have high humidity but not necessarily at high temperatures. It just feels worse at high temps. Personally, I prefer colder and damp than hot and humid if I had to choose one or the other.

 

[Crankyshank]

Anything over 60% humidity is high for me. It doesn't get unbearable for me until it creeps over 70%.


According to my allergist 40% humidity is ideal allergy/asthma wise

 

[Charade]

Anything over 60% humidity is high for me. It doesn't get unbearable for me until it creeps over 70%.


According to my allergist 40% humidity is ideal allergy/asthma wise

 

[Crankyshank]

Oh Chef Billy - think late July in New England without a coastal breeze. That's how the temps will be

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Thanks for the info!
Yup, I'll be at the Boardwalk in 10 days. Basking in the insane humidity, I guess!

Oh--you'll be fine.

Of course I speak as a Floridian .

Kind of like if you travel North and ask them if it will be cold--and they say "no" b/c it will be in the 50s . I have sweaters on in the 70s.


Anywho...it should be nice..and definitely not the sweltering humidity of the summer. It will be hot, so bring that summer wear.

It will be lovely...we are getting close to not breaking 90 for temps .

 

[KAMLEM]

I find it much easier to just look at the dew point. Assuming that the temperature is in the range of 75-95 degrees Farenheit, once the dewpoint hits 60 it starts to feel humid. Anything over 70 is pretty uncomfortable.

 

[mudnuri]

even those of us in the north experience humidity, its not abnormal here to go the entire summer with humidity in the 80-90% range........we've got a sticky hot here NOTHING like arizona/New Mexico trust me

Brandy

 

[Beth76]

I usually feel that over 80% humidity is pretty unpleasant.

 

[Sparx]

70 is hard on me. around here, we always said "Its not the heat that hurts you, its the humidity."