Sentences with phrase «humid air»

It also needs to be air - sealed to prevent humid air from leaking in and finding the cold surface.

This process is moisture sensitive, such that the resin absorbs carbon dioxide in dry air and releases it again in humid air.

To form and develop, they must be supplied with a constant supply of warm humid air for this process.

Since water vapor is lighter than the main constituents of air, air containing water vapor is lighter and so rises above less humid air.

Introducing more warm, humid air into your basement with a fan will not solve the problem; it may in fact increase it.

This is the nuanced part of baking where all the tiny variables — how humid the air is, how you measured your flour, etc. — all come into play.

And white roofs can reduce precipitation as well, by reducing the amount of warm, humid air rising and, thus, the number of clouds and eventual rainfall.

This rising air is replaced by more warm, humid air from the ocean below.

In general, cooler air is better than very warm humid air, as the latter serves as a breeding ground for bacterial growth.

Hot weather leaves me wanting cooler less humid air, pumpkin spice and fall foods.

Another technician says we needed an energy consultant to check the spray - foam job since leaks in the foam were likely allowing hot, humid air into the attic.

But both approaches require either very humid air or far too much electricity to be broadly useful.

The very cold and very dry Arctic air will also mix further south with the warmer, more humid air of the Gulf Stream and make the Norther Atlantic not only colder but wetter.

The storm — which battered the US claiming three lives — is set to hit the UK on Thursday with humid air pushing temperatures towards 28 °C in places.

Severe thunderstorms struck from Oklahoma all the way to Minnesota as a strong cold front edged eastward, plowing into warm and humid air as it did so.

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«Humid air holds water vapor until it contacts a surface whose temperature is less than or equal to the dew point,» he says.

A thin, short - lived contrail indicates low - humidity air at high altitude, a sign of fair weather, whereas a thick, long - lasting contrail reflects humid air at high altitudes and can be an early indicator of a storm.

When it's cold outside and a building doesn't have exterior insulation, we often talk about «condensation» occurring when humid air from indoors finds its way to the interior side of the sheathing.

By increasing the humidity, the solar energy is used more efficiently, or putting it another way there is less energy lost to space by the emission of longwave radiation because humid air has a strong greenhouse effect.

It is true that warmer and / or more humid air above that water slows down the energy flow from water to air but that has no effect on the temperature of the main body of the oceans.

Not got the skill to account for balistic trejectory through humid air over 280m.

Dorchester, South Carolina (CNN)- The fan by the window pushed humid air uselessly against the church pews.

«When you have a long, prolonged stretch of warm humid air coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, you are going to set up conditions that are ripe,» Hayes said.

The cool breeze was so refreshing after months of hot humid air filling the Houston air.

Hurricanes can be thought of, to a first approximation, as a heat engine; obtaining its heat input from the warm, humid air over the tropical ocean, and releasing this heat through the condensation of water vapor into water droplets in deep thunderstorms of the eyewall and rainbands, then giving off a cold exhaust in the upper levels of the troposphere (~ 12 km / 8 mi up).

The vortex is created by admitting warm or humid air tangentially at the base of a circular wall.

The sting of wet, humid air stifled my senses as we stepped off the train into the crowded station.

The beetle extends and aims the wings at incoming sea breezes to catch humid air; tiny droplets 15 to 20 microns in diameter eventually accumulate on its back and run straight down towards its mouth.

Once you exit the plane the hot and humid air hits you right in the face!

Thick, humid air turns out to be a different story, though, and nothing thickens air so reliably (as anyone in London or San Francisco could tell you) as water vapor.

As a fog of ash drifted across Java, the sun faded; the warm, humid air grew stifling, and everything seemed unnaturally still.

«For example, in the Sierra and Lake Tahoe you may see a yearly pattern of humid air masses moving over the region, so plans should be made with these regional patterns in mind.

That is thanks to a fortunate natural thermostat: when humid air gets hot, it rises and causes storms that cool things down.

With the weakening of the easterly tradewinds, humid air follows the warm water eastward, causing rainfall and associated flooding along the west coasts of North and South America and drought in Indonesia and Australia.

Warm Humid Air Penetrates Arctic Cold Dome: 2 of 4 / / Published on Feb 26, 2018 Above the Arctic sea - ice sits a dome of cold, dry, heavy air.

My parents and I would watch summer thunderstorms while curled up on your front porch swing, enjoying the warm, humid air blown through, counting the seconds between the lightning and thunder, and now I do just the same.

Inhaling the fresh humid air and watching the seagulls floating above the cute white boats docked in the port — that's my idea of a perfect evening.

It's probably not humid, but does it seem like humid air because of the breathing difficulty?I have not done much for scenic running (YET!)

Ahead were 800 miles of seemingly endless stretches of corn and wheat fields, stale humid air, and bugs splattering the windshield.

The electrical energy between Alice and Lucy crackles with kinetic menace, as Mangan turn the mood and the setting of the story into a kind of composite force field that sucks the reader in almost instantly, like a wave of humid air blanketing you after emerging from an air - cooled room.

Originally, bulldogs were thin, slim dogs that could withstand humid air longer than modern - day bulldog.

Oklahoma is a magnet for tornadoes because it's right at the convergence point where humid air from the Gulf of Mexico collides with cooler air from the high terrain of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.