surely there has been a post on this before... but it's been some time since i've seen anyone comment on it so i thought i would get your guy's take on the issue of relative humidity.
i have been talking with my future father-in-law about relative humidity lately (he's just starting to get into cigars and has been asking me a number of questions). although i don't really have an issue with this as the climate here is fairly temperate and therefore i generally don't have temperature issues... my discussions made me start to wonder....
we all know what the terms "relative" humidity means.... and i've seen a number of sources, including cigarnexus which i consider to be a very good source of information, say that all of the talk about changing the RH based on the temperature is a bunch of hokey-malokey. but... i'm wondering if this is true...
according to cigar nexus, a cigar should contain about 12-14 percent of its total weight in moisture. to maintin this "ideal" state... the general paradigm is to keep cigars in a 70/70 environment (although many of us keep our cigars at a lower RH out of personal preference). my thought is this... it is TRUE that different temeratures of air holds different quantities of water.... therefore wouldn't it logicly follow that if youre wanting 12-14 percent of your cigars weigt to consit of moisture, and that the amount of moisture in a 70/70 environment is condusive to this, that you would want to adjust the RH based on the air temp so that regardless of the temperature the same amount of water exists in the air as does at 70/70?????
did i just make any sense at all or is that total rambling up there? hehe....
anyway... i was just currious what you all thought about this.
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i have been talking with my future father-in-law about relative humidity lately (he's just starting to get into cigars and has been asking me a number of questions). although i don't really have an issue with this as the climate here is fairly temperate and therefore i generally don't have temperature issues... my discussions made me start to wonder....
we all know what the terms "relative" humidity means.... and i've seen a number of sources, including cigarnexus which i consider to be a very good source of information, say that all of the talk about changing the RH based on the temperature is a bunch of hokey-malokey. but... i'm wondering if this is true...
according to cigar nexus, a cigar should contain about 12-14 percent of its total weight in moisture. to maintin this "ideal" state... the general paradigm is to keep cigars in a 70/70 environment (although many of us keep our cigars at a lower RH out of personal preference). my thought is this... it is TRUE that different temeratures of air holds different quantities of water.... therefore wouldn't it logicly follow that if youre wanting 12-14 percent of your cigars weigt to consit of moisture, and that the amount of moisture in a 70/70 environment is condusive to this, that you would want to adjust the RH based on the air temp so that regardless of the temperature the same amount of water exists in the air as does at 70/70?????
did i just make any sense at all or is that total rambling up there? hehe....
anyway... i was just currious what you all thought about this.
:7