Robustojoe: Online Cigar Magazine

Does humid air rise?  Will the cigars at the top of my humidor be more moist than the ones on the bottom?  There seems to be a lot of confusion about these simple questions.  But by placing multiple hygrometers inside a large humidor, I’ve observed that humid air DOES rise.  This observation is confirmed by a more scientific approach in this online article:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/kinetic/relhum.html#c5

This understanding explains a lot.  If water vapor was heavier than air, evaporation could not occure.  But this unscientific explanation is very general and doesn’t take into account things like temperature, elevation, and other factors that I am not even aware of.  But for a cigar collector, this rather simple generalization is good enough.  For consistant cigar humidification, we need to circulate the air in our storage units and rotate the cigars in our humidors.