Relative humidity?

Question

What does the air temperature tell us when trying to find the relative humidity?

I kwow that the wet bulb temperature gives us the temperature when water condenses, I just don't know what the air temperature tells us.

Answer 1

The relative humidity is a ratio of how much water is in the air compared to what it could hold. The warmer it is, the more moisture the air can hold. The difference between the wet bulb and the dry bulb reading is used on a chart to get the relative humidity. You can also determine the humidity, the dew point, and the cloud height .

Answer 2

It is referred to as relative humidity because the amount of water the air can hold suspended in a gaseous state is relative to the temperature.
The warmer the air, the more moisture it can hold.
Since the humidity is measured as a per centage, a relative humidity of 50% means the air contains half the maximum ammount of water it can possibly hold in suspension at the given temperature.
Since amount of moisture changes with the temperature, the temperature MUST be given when the relative humidity is reported . If not, the data has no acccurate value and the volume of moisture per unit volume of air cannot be known.