No walking barefoot on the beach today. Stormy weather; thunder, lightning, wind, and rain. Poor Annie is not enjoying this at all. Judy and I take turns holding the vibrating dog. The wind will push the waves up to meet the dunes at high tide tonight. No camping on the beach either. It’s supposed to calm down by Christmas.
Saturday
The air between the raindrops here, by the way, is fully saturated. The humidity is high.
Port a
We leave behind the swarms of black crested tufted titmice and carolina chickadees at Lost Maples for the drive to Port Aransas. The last day of driving for a while. A sunny day and seventy degrees at our arrival. It’s good to be here. Merry Christmas everybody.
Lost maples
A cold morning in the twenties, a warm sunny driving day with no wind or trucks. Seventy degrees this afternoon at Lost Maples State Park, named for an isolated stand of bigtooth maples left over from the last ice age.
Meanwhile
Okay. My humidity question has evolved. I’ve read all the humidity definitions. I realize the air only has to be fully saturated in the clouds to precipitate rain. The part I’m having trouble with is how nice dry air, with rain falling through it, can stay dry. Wouldn’t the rain falling through it raise the humidity somewhat? I guess it did some. The humidity was in the 20s before the rain, then in the 40s during the rain. I’m just surprised that’s all the difference the rain made. The air is totally full of water and the humidity doesn’t even make it to 50%?
From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:45 PM
To: Bill Taylor (Bill Taylor); David Taylor (David Taylor); Tom Taylor (Tom Taylor)
Subject: meanwhile Can someone explain to me what relative humidity is? “Relative Humidity”. We all say it, but relative to what? Relative to how much moisture the air can hold at that altitude and temperature? That would be logical to me. How is it that we wake up in the morning in Arizona, it is raining, and the relative humidity is 49%? I got on line. It was raining on the Texas coast too, but the relative humidity there was 99%. Is the rain that much wetter in Texas? Were the raindrops that much farther apart in Arizona? The air was filled with water in both places. I don’t understand relative humidity.