# Dew point

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dew-point/170700>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 23, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dew-point/170700 "2003-04-23T22:25:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![radarksu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@radarksu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radarksu)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dew-point/170700/1 "2003-04-23T22:25:19Z")

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[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdewpoint.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdewpoint.html)

[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdewpoint.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdewpoint.html)

I just wanted to let everyone know about a dew point experience I had recently. My friend asked me what the dew point was and I said it is probably the temperature at which dew forms. Well a few days later using an online home weather station, like weather bug or [theweatherchanndel.com](http://theweatherchanndel.com). My friend noticed that the actual temperature had been getting closer and closer to the dew point temperature. So we went outside and stared at the windshield of my car for about an hour and saw the dew form. Yes, thats right in Kansas we have nothing better to than watch dew form.

John Schalekamp  
Architectural Engineering Student  
Kansas State University

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dew-point/170700/2 "2003-04-24T02:47:42Z")

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Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, **radarksu** , glad to have you with us. Even if you do sit and watch the dew form.

… I watched a spider spinning a web once, for quite a long time, but watching dew form is a new and high level of excitement.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Cobweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Cobweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Cobweb)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dew-point/170700/3 "2003-04-24T14:37:48Z")

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So then, would watching dew form _on a spider web_ one had previously watched being spun be the ultimate rapture, excitement-wise?