Humidity

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Humidity refers to the water vapour in the air. The air absorbs it from the water evaporated from water bodies or plants and animals. Two types of humidity are absolute humidity and relative humidity .

The actual amount of water vapour that the air holds at any given time is absolute humidity while the ratio of absolute humidity to the maximum humidity that the air can hold is relative humidity.

Thus, absolute humidity divided by maximum humidity multiplied by 100 gives the Relative Humidity of the air.