can there be 100% humidity without rain?

Answer 1

yes it could.
100% humudity means that the air is saturated with water vapour and can't have more.

Answer 2

humidity measures moisture in the air. But it can be raining without 100 percent humidity. And, the humidity can measure 100 percent without it raining.

For clouds to form and rain to start, the air does have to reach 100% relative humidity, but only where the clouds are forming or where the rain is coming from. Often, rain will be falling from clouds where the humidity is 100% into air with a lower humidity. Some water from the rain evaporates into the air it's falling through, increasing the humidity, but usually not enough to bring the humidity up to 100%.

When air is saturated, or 100% humidity, rain may or may not form, since it takes more than saturated air to make rain. Rain actually forms from two processes. In one case, the drops simply collide with one another until they are big and heavy enough to cease being suspended in air and they fall to the ground. The air may be completely saturated, but the drops are so small that they may remain suspended in the air and not fall as rain. This is one reason why not all clouds produce rain. In thick fog, the humidity is usually 100 percent, but the fog droplets are so small they don't form raindrops.

Most rain actually starts from ice crystals in clouds, which draw moisture from very cold water drops. The ice crystals grow in size and weight until they are big and heavy enough to fall from the cloud. If the air at the earth's surface is cold enough, they remain in crystal form and fall as snow or melt on the way to the ground and fall as rain. Again, the air in the cloud may be 100 percent humidity and this process may not happen. Thus you have saturated air, but no precipitation.

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Answer 3

Yes. In 100% humidity you will have a very dense fog.

Answer 4

A parcel of air is made up of a bunch of Elements and chemicals. Air can only hold 4% water. Imagine all the things that make up the air we breathe (nitrogen, oxygen, argon, CO2, water vapor and <1% of other chemicals). When the water vapor of a measured parcel of air is 4% then it 100% saturated. Water vapor will never be higher than 4% and it rarely reaches that 4%. Since water vapor is lighter than the chemicals it displaces then saturated air is lighter than dry air. Since it is lighter it rises. A stable atmosphere contains cool dry air.

Answer 5

Yes, it's in a concentrated water vapour in the area. There could be thick fog, or a snow.

Answer 6

Yes, under water.

Answer 7

yes I have experienced it in NYC in the middle of summer.......absolutely horrible...its a blessing when the rain finally starts.

Answer 8

yes clouds start to form when the air gets saturated.

Answer 9

yes,,,,,,, snow and frost makes humidity too


read your weather

Answer 10

Yeah, but we're talking damp and probably foggy or misty.