How does relative humidity affect us?

Answer 1

Other than health issues related to respiration, humidity affects our ability to cool down. This occurs because we cool down by releasing water through our pores in the form of sweat. This sweat evaporates, carrying away excess body heat.

Evaporation rates depend on the humidity of the surrounding air. The more humid the air, the slower something will evaporate. When we go into humid air, the sweat evaporates more slowly than it does in dry air. This means that less water molecules are leaving our body, carrying away heat, which means that we are left with that heat. Thus we feel hotter and we are also wetter.

Answer 2

There have also been scientific studies (inconclusive) that suggest that high humidity values associated with high summer temperatures also are crime deterrents in a sociological sense. The inability of the air to evaporate our sweat causes extreme uncomfortability and fatigue which lethargizes criminals and the average person alike. But it's not like Stan Lee will be creating the comic book hero Humidity Man anytime soon, the studies are mostly methodologically flawed.

Answer 3

relative humidiity affects us in a number of certain ways, we as americans should take relative humidity very seriously, especially around election time.

Answer 4

More humdity, more sweat.