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Old 04-22-2018, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tuccillo View Post
As I stated, this combination is rare as it translates to a dewpoint of 87 (which is rare, as the sort of density stratification that this causes is very conducive to thunderstorms in the absence of a strong capping inversion). We occasionally will hit dew points in the low 80s but dew points in the upper 80 occurs in a limited number of locations around the world.

Full disclosure: undergraduate and graduate degrees in atmospheric science, developer of numerical weather prediction models for NASA and the National Weather Service.
And in this scenario an east facing lanai would be just as uncomfortable as a west facing lanai.