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Jan 19th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Nature, Science & TechnologyWas just updating myself on the weather for the next few days when I noticed something interesting. When you get a weather report there’s usually a humidity rating, in percentage, that basically tells you how much water is in the air. So I opened my weathernetwork.com and saw 100% humidity. (it has been overly foggy in Vancouver the last few days. To the point I’m reminded of the movie the Mist, forecasting some alien invasion).
In any case, how the heck do you get 100% humidity any way? Since a percentage is really just a fraction, that mean humidity (in the form given by weather reports) is just a wet/dry scenario. So the wetter it is, the higher the ratio. To get 100% you will need the fraction to equal 1 (meaning the denominator an numerator is the same).
Further then, given the above understanding of percentages and fractions, in order to achieve 100% humidity we’d need wet/wet or wet/dry. Assuming what the top and bottom represent doesn’t change we must then need wet=dry for the equations to stay true. This then means 100% humidity would have to mean a perfect balance of wet air to dry air. And here I thought it would mean that we’re living under water. Since it was 100% wet. Which then begs the question: what is the humidity under water? Infinity? Approaching infinity? Interesting…
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