The more moisture in the air, the less lift and instability are needed to produce precipitation.
The extra moisture in the air is thought to induce harsher droughts, stronger typhoons and more severe floods.
Increasingly balmy temperatures mean more moisture in the air, which creates mold.
For now, it can analyze ambient room temperature, moisture in the air, light concentration or color, displaying its readings on an iPhone or iPad.
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It has also branched into interesting side businesses, such as a technology called dragon-fly that can distill drinking water from the natural moisture in the air.
If there is more moisture in the air condensing as dew, you might expect to see the effects high up and to windward, on somewhere like Mountain Red Hill.
But, even a tiny warming of the huge Southern Ocean must increase the amount of moisture in the air around Antarctica which can only result in more clouds and snow over the continent.
That does not sound like much but it does mean that extreme rain storms may bring more rain than before - with more moisture in the air, what goes up must come down, and the odds are worse.
Once you enter the dark space where a dramatic spotlight shines on a 100sqm patch of falling water, the sound of the shower and the feeling of moisture in the air immediately gives the familiar impression of being caught in a downpour.
The perchlorates in the mud then sucked moisture out of the air until there was enough water for them to dissolve (a process known as deliquescence).
May and June can be chilly, and if the air is damp and there is moisture in the wickets, the experience of England's players could give them an edge which might balance the absence of any single great player in an ageing team.
The lifting mechanism pushes the moist air upward to a point in the atmosphere where the thinner air can no longer hold the moisture, at which time precipitation forms and falls to the ground.
Once the home has been duly sealed, the flow of air, moisture and heat in and out of it can be carefully controlled.
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