Nor does this Humidity go off pure and alone; but usually bears forth with it many Parts of the same Nature with those whereof the Plant, through which it passes, consists.
There is, however, as the product of the brief summer season, an abundance of fresh green vegetation, which is fostered by the humidity of the atmosphere.
The humidity of the atmosphere of the west coast, and especially in the latitude of Bergen, favors floral development.
The effect is particularly striking along seashores, where the air, although it may not have the humidity necessary for the formation of rain, still contains enough to form dew.
The unexceptionable shelter, the humidity that prevails, and the inexhaustible supply of humus that is generally found in deep forest ravines frequently lead to their planting to cacao where the slope is even as great as 45 deg.
That the relative humidity of the air is not the all-important factor was often proved by the bad scent experienced just before rain and storms, when the hygrometer showed a saturation of considerably over ninety per cent.
Not long ago a man wrote to the Field saying that he had proved by experiment that on the saturation or relative humidity of the air the hunter's hopes depend: in fact, he announced that he had solved the riddle of scent.
But there are undoubtedly other complications besides the evaporations from the soil and the relative humidityof the air to be considered in making an enquiry into the causes of good and bad scent.
There are, however, as the distich says, many months of uncertainty, in which humidity invades the ordinary time of drought, and drought that of humidity.
It is salutary when smoked, and even a necessity in these regions; it disperses phlegm, protects from the bad consequences of humidity and the morning dews, and is only injurious to health when used in excess.
To say that on a day of averagehumidity in England, the atmospheric vapour exerts 100 times the action of the air itself, would certainly be an understatement of the fact.
The haze varies with the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere.
In summer, the only effect is to increase the humidity of the atmosphere and frequency of rains, without adding to the quantity.
Invalids should, however, avoid exposure to it as much as possible, since when out in it, it envelops the whole person, and the chill and humidity may work serious injury.
The effect of these dry winds on the humidity of the atmosphere in Minnesota is unquestioned and demonstrable by the records kept of the various governmental posts over the whole country.
The humidity of the atmosphere is not always determined by the rain-fall.
The peninsula of Florida is such an exception, owing to its peculiar location, and the great humidity of its atmosphere during a considerable fraction of the year.
Flies crowd upon the screens of houses when humidityis high, possibly because the appetizing odors from within are buoyed afar by the heavy air.
Right; because if it is summer even the eastern horizon would show the humidity necessary enough to cause a thunderstorm, and in winter the cirrus clouds give several hours' warning.
In some localities as much as thirty-six and even forty-eight hours are sometimes required for the east wind to bring the humidity to the dew-point.
In such circumstances the only hope for the farmer is that there is enough humidity in the air to cause a fog before the frost-point is reached.
The increase of humiditywhich precedes a rain buoys up odors and depresses smoke.
Its significance is of greater humidityand is the first real confirmation of the earlier promise of the cirri.
Hence when the day's evaporation adds more moisture to that already at the higher levels the total humidity is likely to increase beyond the dewpoint with the resultant rain.
The lessened humidity coincident with clear weather is responsible often for many little household prognostics.
If it does not so begin it shows that the process of increasing humidity is a very slow one and the storm center is probably passing far to one side of the observer.
One of the chief of these seems to be the unequal distribution of humidity in the air, which renders it a more or less good conductor.
The serpent Jormundgard, type of humidity and its dangerous effects; it is a happy idea of the poet to imagine all the serpent kind engendered by him.
In every mythology the serpent seems to be the emblem of humidity and its noxious qualities.
The humidity of the herb was nearly evaporated, when he was called away by other affairs, and was obliged to leave the oil on the fire.
The evaporation of the humidity was hereby carried so far, that the herb could easily be rubbed to powder.
These productions were generally attributed to the superfluous humidityof rotten wood, or other putrid substances.
It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
In them, pale soil and low relative humidity are important passive factors of selection that give adaptive value to the pale colors of pelage of both infernatis and handleyi.
The variations in color in this subspecies closely correspond to degree of relative humidity; the palest samples are from areas of low relative humidity and the darkest are from areas of high relative humidity.
The earth loses water when wind blows, when sun shines, when air temperature is high, and when humidity is low.
The kind of vegetation growing on a particular plot and its density have even more to do with soil moisture loss than temperature or humidity or wind speed.
Influence of the Forest on the Humidity of the Soil.
The warm, moist currents of air which come from other regions are cooled as they approach the wood by its less heated atmosphere, and obliged to let fall the humidity with which they are charged.
Doubtless the quantity of humidity contained in the atmosphere has also been affected by the same cause, but observations do not appear to have been made on that point.
Except in the seething marshes of the tropics, where vegetable decay is extremely rapid, the uniformity of temperature and of atmospheric humidity renders all forests eminently healthful.
The most important influence of the forest on climate is, no doubt, that which it exercises on the humidity of the air and the earth, and this climatic action it exerts partly as dead, partly as living matter.
The temperature is higher; the relative humidity lower, and the winds usually more abundant in arid than in humid regions.
In New York the relative humidityin summer is about 73 per cent; in Salt Lake City, about 35 per cent.
To the dry-farmer, therefore, the relative humidity or degree of dryness of the air is of very great importance.
The fact that transpiration is greater under a low relative humidity is of greatest importance to the dry-farmer who has to contend with the dry atmosphere.
As shown in Chapter IV, the relative humidity becomes smaller as the rainfall decreases.
The amount of water actually found in a given volume of air at a certain temperature, compared with the largest amount it can hold, is called the relative humidity of the air.
All wet or moist substances lose by evaporation most of the water that they hold, providing the conditions of temperature and relative humidity are favorable.
Relative humidity At a definite temperature, the atmosphere can hold only a certain amount of water vapor.
The lower the relative humidityis at a given temperature, the more rapidly will water evaporate into the air.
Owing to the humidity of the soil cryptogams are numerous, as also most kinds of grasses.
The climate is hot, and the year is divided into a wet and dry season, extreme humidity being characteristic of the former.
This is done to the end, that the abundance of Mortar which is in the middle may furnish and communicate a sufficient Humidity to the Joints of the great Stones which make the Parements.
The Ancients sometimes made double Vaults, when they were afraid that the Humidity which is engender'd, by the Vapours which mount up might rot the Wood which is upon the Vaults.
The Greeks had a way of making their Floors in those low places where cold and humidity ordinarily reign, which freed them from these Inconveniences.
The Beech which has little of Earthiness, Humidity and Fire, but great plenty of Air, is not very solid and easily breaks.
But with the clever young woman of business, in the rush and turmoil of the down-town hustle, it is such a gentle humidity it seems to work its corrosion unseen in the broad daylight.
The humidity of the atmosphere, and the damp heats which are nourished amidst its intricate thickets, produce violent fevers, which often prove extremely destructive, especially to European constitutions.
For determining the relativehumidity of the air the expedition had two of Russeltvedt's torsion hygrometers.
It is seen that the relative humidity attains its maximum in winter, in the months of July and August, with a mean of 90 per cent.
The daily course of humidity is contrary to the course of the temperature, and does not show itself very markedly, except in January.
An insect in the foliage began a creaking call, and then all the creatures of humidity hidden there among this fermenting vegetation joined in mocking chorus.
There was rice stored in the corner of the room, and giant rats thundered over the loose planking, squealed and fought, while outside in the scum of the ditches the beasts of humidity shrilled in rasping clamour.
Perhaps the greatest humidity and the heaviest rainfall in the Alaskan country occur here.
The great precipitation and humidity of the atmosphere in Southern Alaska cause the entire coast region to be clothed in a mantle of perennial green.
The humidity escaping about the forehead left a crescent of snow above, while that escaping under the chin, combined with falling breath, formed there a semi-circle of ice.
If we did not remove the ice every three or four days the draft was closed by atmospheric humidity condensed from the draft drawn through the fire.
The strange equability of light and color, of humidity and of air temperatures extended an area one hundred miles about the Pole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humidity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
