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DrCue'sProtege

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ok, folks, borrowed a gizmo that gives one the humidity readout, and noticed last night in my pool room that my humidity was around 65%. just wondering if this might be high or low? or just about right? the 65% does seem a little high to me, but we have had alot of rain here in SW Indiana lately.

BTW, the balls did seem to cooperate last night, i had several chances to run racks.

DCP
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
ok, folks, borrowed a gizmo that gives one the humidity readout, and noticed last night in my pool room that my humidity was around 65%. just wondering if this might be high or low? or just about right? the 65% does seem a little high to me, but we have had alot of rain here in SW Indiana lately.

BTW, the balls did seem to cooperate last night, i had several chances to run racks.

DCP
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Look at it from this perspective...100% humidity is rain....so you are more than half way to rain...

Right at this moment in Phoenix the Humidity is 0.00.

The annual average humidity for the Phoenix area is 35%....and believe it or not the annual average temp for Phoenix is 75.
 
Is your pool room located at the basement level? Because it's usually colder in the basement than the rest of the house which can make your basement feel really dump.
 
100% humidity does not equal rain. 100% humidity only means that the air is completely saturated and is holding the max amount of water vapor. It turns to rain once air temp and/or pressure changes. Typically, rain begins well before 100%. It's not uncommon for it to rain at 60% humidity, and I don't think that means it will rain in DCP's pool room.

BRKNRUN said:
Look at it from this perspective...100% humidity is rain....so you are more than half way to rain...

Right at this moment in Phoenix the Humidity is 0.00.

The annual average humidity for the Phoenix area is 35%....and believe it or not the annual average temp for Phoenix is 75.
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StevenPWaldon said:
100% humidity does not equal rain. 100% humidity only means that the air is completely saturated and is holding the max amount of water vapor. It turns to rain once air temp and/or pressure changes. Typically, rain begins well before 100%. It's not uncommon for it to rain at 60% humidity, and I don't think that means it will rain in DCP's pool room.
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Your right.....but to me...when it starts raining...its 100% humid outside...
 
Here in FL the humidity stays between 90% & 100% close to 10 months of the year (same 10 mo. we run ac 24/7).

I haven't noticed much difference in cloth speed until the in room humidity is 80% +. The rooms here run ac on deep-freeze to keep the moisture down.

Sigel was playing alone next to me a few days before Reno and was complaining that one side of the table was faster than the other because he thought an ac vent was blowing on one side (it's not any different really, he was just missing a few shots) :D

65% wouldn't slow down anything that you would notice.
 
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One thing to keep in mind is that humidity can tend to be higher when the air is cold, because the solubility of water in air is considerably lower at lower temperatures. Just as hot water can dissolve a lot more sugar than cold water.

65% is not too high in my opinion, but very dry air can still make a table play faster and easier. Though the amount of chalk and grease embedded into the cloth, rails and jaws can make a more significant difference.

Colin
 
Wow, I guess I'm going to have to disagree with the prevailing sentiment; I think that level of humidity is way too high for "proper pool."

In the summer, when air conditioning is running; our AC guy recommends 40% humidity. At that level, the play of my table is SIGNIFICANTLY different than in the winter when we keep humidity less than 20%. I like the way the drier table plays so well that I ignore the AC guy, and run the dehumidifier in the basement all summer long. Two years ago, sjm was visiting Betmore's Basement and he could notice how "wet" the table was playing (I had forgotten to run the dehumidifier, humidity setting was 40%). JMO
 
Colin Colenso said:
65% is not too high in my opinion, but very dry air can still make a table play faster and easier. Though
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Oh darn, there goes another excuse. :mad:

Dave, from Saskatchewan, where we defend our climate with comments like "ya, well it's a dry cold" in February and "ya, well it's a dry heat" in August
 
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