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JimDrock

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I have noticed that when I'm vaping outside in the high Georgia summer humidity.im not getting the clouds and taste. Is anyone else having that problem? Or is it me?

I down here in middle GA and have noticed the same, just doesn't seem like the vape is as pleasurable when it's hot-n-humid. Tho, for me at least, I'm not happy with anything when it's so dang hot. :)
 

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Being that humidity is a vapor but still water, just a vaporized form and it is lighter as in a form of gas. When you inhale high humidity you are actually bringing in a cooler air, even if it is hotter than a BBQ outside. Just as a cooling fan used in hot temperatures for football players where the fan blows water vapor to cool them down. Just apply the same principle to vaping, it too will cool the coil down and thus producing less vapor and a cooler draw....Only difference is you are drawing air in where a fan just blows it, but the humidity is still the same in cooling properties.
 

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Being that humidity is a vapor but still water, just a vaporized form and it is lighter as in a form of gas. When you inhale high humidity you are actually bringing in a cooler air, even if it is hotter than a BBQ outside. Just as a cooling fan used in hot temperatures for football players where the fan blows water vapor to cool them down. Just apply the same principle to vaping, it too will cool the coil down and thus producing less vapor and a cooler draw....Only difference is you are drawing air in where a fan just blows it, but the humidity is still the same in cooling properties.
I've noticed the same thing here in NC when it's hot, you give the best explanation I've heard for why. I will add that I also have more gurgling when its hot outside and I'm out, and I attribute that to decreased viscosity (thinning due to temperature) of the liquid.
 

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Minnesota is very humid.
Also very dry in winter.
And yes. The quality of vapor goes down in summer and up in winter.
Well, I feel it does.
Any other minnesodans care to verify?
Heck, I'll bribe you with lutefisk if you agree.

I don't know about where you are in MN, but here in the Twin Cities, we've been practically breathing steam anyway -- humidity over 90 percent. I switched back to peppermint at 7W. I pretend it's cooling me down.

I'll pass on the Lutefisk, but I'll take some lefsa if you've got some.
 

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Interesting to hear that the vapor is better in the winter. It gets dang cold here so that's good to know. I get to work from home all the time through november, hopefully that will continue on... But could be murphys law they need me downtown jan/feb.

Seems like sub zero would just kill battery life.. But maybe fir 5 mins or so at a time it doesn't make too much of a difference...

As for humidity i see the same right now, can't make out the cloud though the flavour is still okish
 

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I don't know about where you are in MN, but here in the Twin Cities, we've been practically breathing steam anyway -- humidity over 90 percent. I switched back to peppermint at 7W. I pretend it's cooling me down.

I'll pass on the Lutefisk, but I'll take some lefsa if you've got some.
I used to work for some folks out south of town in Eagan. It does get get warmer and more humid then even a boy from Texas would figure for that far up North.
 

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I used to work for some folks out south of town in Eagan. It does get get warmer and more humid then even a boy from Texas would figure for that far up North.

As the saying goes, "It's not the heat. It's the humidity," at least around here lately. With humidity 80-90% it's been miserable, but it hasn't even hit 90.

You were in MN during the summer? Did you miss out on the winter?
 
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