How to Use relative humidity in a Sentence

relative humidity

noun

• Winds will be gusty, up to 35 mph and the relative humidity will drop to as low as 6%.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 July 2022
• Due to the winds and the low relative humidity, the area is at a high level of fire risk, per the weather service.
  — Andrea Morabito, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The relative humidity is down to 5% and wind gusts to near 50 mph are expected in the area.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2021
• At the same time, the relative humidity will fall to the 15 percent to 25 percent range in many areas.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, the relative humidity inland will drop to the 10 percent to 15 percent range.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• That’s because if the air over the desert of the Great Basin becomes warmer, its relative humidity will decrease.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• As the air warms, its relative humidity drops, sometimes to less than 20% or even less than 10%.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• Evenings will still feel muggy and hot due to the high relative humidity.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2022
• The relative humidity level has been in the low teens to sometimes down in the single digits.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 July 2024
• The risk of fire will be further raised by the relative humidity, which will drop to 15 percent inland.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• CalFire says a red flag warning was in effect for the area, with 10 to 20 mph winds coming in from the north and low relative humidity.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 June 2024
• Low relative humidity for the area is also playing a role in the wildfire, Smith said.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2022
• The relative humidity becomes very small at the same time.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
• That threat is due to gusty winds, dry fuels and low relative humidity.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
• The ease with which water can be won from air depends on that air’s relative humidity.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• There is a red flag warning in effect Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. due to strong winds and low relative humidity.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Warm air and low dew points drop the relative humidity to very low levels Tuesday and Wednesday.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• To maintain good vocal fold health and keep the tissue from drying out, have a relative humidity of 40% or greater.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• On Tuesday, the winds could pick up a little higher but the relative humidity could rise to over 30 percent.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
• Forecasters say the relative humidity at and near the coast will rise to 60 percent to 70 percent.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
• The weather service in Flagstaff has issued the warning due to strong winds and low relative humidity.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2024
• The relative humidity throughout the inland valleys and foothills was in the 15 percent to 20 percent range.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
• The relative humidity also will drop to the 10 percent to 15 percent range inland on Monday then spread to the coast on Tuesday.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
• In other words, dew point tells us the temperature the air needs to be cooled to in order to achieve a relative humidity of 100% — or when dew forms — Sellers said.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• Red flag warnings are up for a wide swath of Texas and Oklahoma, where relative humidity could fall below 25% and winds may gust up to 30 mph.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• The relative humidity inland will drop to the 7 percent to 15 percent range.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
• Overnight saw wind gusts around 40 mph, isolated up to 60 mph over the highest North Bay Mtns, w/ dry relative humidity.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
• The relative humidity in the desert could drop into single digits during the week.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Forecasters aren’t too concerned about fire danger, despite the warm temperatures, gusts and low relative humidity, because the rain from the weekend storm should keep risk relatively low.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
• The heat index is calculated with a complex equation that factors in relative humidity and air temperature.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024