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11 AM - In the garage. Been like this for a few days

Neck won't fit in the mortice anymore. Brutally dry. Gotta find other stuff to do than fit anything on the git.

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The last time I saw humidity readings that low I was standing on the salt of Bonneville.

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Yikes!
I'd be panicking about my stash...

Has that been callibrated recently? I've only seen readings like that on airplanes.

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I grew up in San Diego, must be Santa Anna winds time. I just looked at weather bug for Lemon Grove and it says RH is 9%.

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Weather.com shows 18% in San Diego 3PM but that's coastal and usually a little higher and you can feel that it's very, very dry.

Not all that unusual for here but it's lasted for 3 or 4 days which is very strange.

I washed down the garage floor and closed the door - got the RH back up to 40%. Might do that first thing every morning till it breaks.

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Yeah Lemon Grove 11% and Vista (where I live) 15% at the time of this post - for real. Guess I don't have to calibrate my hygrometer.

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SOP for Phx.
The other day when the temps dropped to below freezing the dew point was 1º

Hit a seasonal low today here as well in the midwest...but nothing like that. My cheap, uncalibrated meter reads about 32% indoors...most of the year im dreaming about some of that dry western air.....

Hit a seasonal low today here as well in the midwest...but nothing like that. My cheap, uncalibrated meter reads about 32% indoors...most of the year im dreaming about some of that dry western air.....

Pegged it this morning. Never seen it this dry for this long in the 24 years I've lived here. Weather.com says 8%. Maybe some rain this weekend. Guitar wood is moving like a hula girl on 'ludes.

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Wow, that is scary dry. I hate dryness like that, it's tough on everything.

Here in Bar Harbor Maine it is currently 9deg out and a windchill of -15 to -20. This is during the day. My hygrometer is not working so am not sure what the RH is but it feels dry. Weather.com claims it is 43% but Im not sure I believe it, especially inside with forced hot air. But at that low a temp the air can't hold much water anyway so 43% is low. Tomorrow is a high of 8deg and low of -10 with a windchill still around -20. This weather sux!

That really is a world away Anthony. 75 degrees here today and most of the last 4 or 5 days. You're right that dry weather effects everything wood - and not in a good way. Our summers are very nice with a dependable 45-50% RH most every day, but winter's RH will range from the insane 8% today to 60's and 70's with rain. Impossible to know when to glue or not glue. I've got a walnut back in the garage that I over thinned and it's potato chipped so bad I didn't think wood could even do that.

A friend had a nice Martin I sold him in Tucson and he didn't humidify his guitar room and the guitar was so badly twisted it looked like the Taylor demo where he dries out a guitar on purpose. I'll take some humidity over super-dry any day.

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Another world away, here it is currently -21 C and falling to -30C overnight and windchill will take it to -42C. RH, however is 70%...outside.

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+21C here and 70%RH
Last week it reached 40C and 45C inland