• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    For fun I’m going to explain why. So air can hold some amount of water in it at any temperature. Water energy in form of heat is not evenly distributed so some molecules move faster than others, at the surface some move fast enough to escape the water and into the air. That’s called evaporation, boiling does however require 100°C.

    This also explains why humid weather affects evaporation (lower capacity to hold water in air) and at high humidity there’s an a similar chance of water being deposited to the body of water as water escaping which affects evaporation speed a lot.

    Honestly, I really like this quality of water, it would be super annoying to deal with otherwise.