# ironing and humidity.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 19, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424 "2015-03-19T20:53:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424/1 "2015-03-19T20:53:55Z")

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Weird thing happened today that has me pondering sciency stuff. It is warm and more humid than has been in a while.

Last week during my two hours ironing I filled the iron with 6 cups of water.

Today I used 3. Would the humidity in the air reduce amount of steam the iron outputs?

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**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424/2 "2015-03-19T22:17:59Z")

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Humidity should not effect it. It’s either you are pressing less on the steam/spray button or the water you used before was hard and has clogged some of the pores.

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424/3 "2015-03-19T23:04:55Z")

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> [@am77494](#):
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> Humidity should not effect it. It’s either you are pressing less on the steam/spray button or the water you used before was hard and has clogged some of the pores.

\<grammar\> Sorry but this is one of my pet peeves. \*Humidity should not \*\*affect \*_it_

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**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironing-and-humidity/715424/4 "2015-03-20T19:42:31Z")

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Thank you 🙂

Will make sure to check iron is not clogged.