You may find your sneakers get wet on many summer mornings because grass is covered with dew. But dew does not form on ALL nights in the summer. What do you think explains why it forms on some nights and not others? Explain your answer!

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You may find your sneakers get wet on many summer mornings because grass is covered with dew. But dew does not form on ALL nights in the summer. What do you think explains why it forms on some nights and not others? Explain your answer!

6/25/2020

Stephen Corfidi

7/9/2020 10:32:13 am

Dew forms on calm nights when the air temperature at the surface can most readily fall (via radiational energy loss and contact cooling (conduction)) to the dew-point temperature, resulting in the condensation of moisture previously present in vapor form.

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The formation of dew on grass overnight is just one "phenomenon", or thing, that you may notice during the summer and wonder about. Here is your opportunity to answer a question about that and other phenomena. Good luck!

You may find your sneakers get wet on many summer mornings because grass is covered with dew. But dew does not form on ALL nights in the summer. What do you think explains why it forms on some nights and not others? Explain your answer!

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Dive into Dew Blog!The formation of dew on grass overnight is just one "phenomenon", or thing, that you may notice during the summer and wonder about. Here is your opportunity to answer a question about that and other phenomena. Good luck!

You may find your sneakers get wet on many summer mornings because grass is covered with dew. But dew does not form on ALL nights in the summer. What do you think explains why it forms on some nights and not others? Explain your answer!

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Dive into Dew Blog!
The formation of dew on grass overnight is just one "phenomenon", or thing, that you may notice during the summer and wonder about. Here is your opportunity to answer a question about that and other phenomena. Good luck!