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Recent Examples of dehumidifyTo make your house a centipede-free zone, seal cracks to the outdoors, keep shoes off the floor, dehumidify the air, clean regularly, and reduce clutter.—Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024 Sinn’s proprietary aragon dehumidifying technology prevents fogging in case of moisture entering the case.—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 22 July 2024 Humidity dominates The other issue is that much of the energy an air conditioning unit expends goes into dehumidifying the air — not just cooling it.—Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Despite its lightweight design, the portable machine can reduce the condensation of an 800-square-foot room and has a capacity to dehumidify 1 liter of water per day.—Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024 This device also has both dehumidifying and humidifying capabilities as well.—Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023 For a dehumidifier that is equipped to handle a variety of dehumidifying needs, consider this one from Midea.—Jenna Clark, Southern Living, 31 July 2023 The dehumidifying process is fairly simple: A fan draws air in and passes it over a cooling coil.—Jenna Clark, Southern Living, 31 July 2023 Others grew mold despite the staff’s best efforts to fend it off—which, when the papers are pulled from cold storage, requires some combination of freezing, dehumidifying, and physically removing spores.—Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
Los Angeles has received essentially no rainfall in over 10 months, with the driest start to a rainy season on record, parching soils and vegetation and setting the stage for extreme winds to intensify and spread the fires.
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Peter H. Gleick,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2025
But leaders say traditional practices mitigated damage Jan. 19, 2025
An extreme lack of rain plays a major role in explaining Southern California’s fire woes, where vegetation is parched and flammable, making brush far more likely to turn into a spot fire should an ember land on it.
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Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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