Humidity affects our daily lives in ways most scarcely understand – cooling or warming the air, determining the conditions we encounter outdoors, indirectly influencing our health and comfort. It's an integral, if under appreciated, factor shaping our overall quality of life.
By factoring the average amount of water vapor present in the air relative to the maximum it can hold at the same temperature, we've ranked each state on a scale from the driest to the most humid.