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I assume you're talking about having a relative humidity of 100%, correct?

Relative humidity is current amount of water vapor in the air divided by the maximum possible amount of water vapor in the air at that temperature and air pressure. If you have 100% relative humidity, water cannot evaporate.

The unfortunate result of this is that sweating in warm, high humidity air (90% plus) is counterproductive - your body can do better keeping cool with the water inside of you than it can with you covered in water that will maintain the atmospheric temperature for a while even if you find somewhere cooler to recover.

RH is NOT the water content of the air - if that were so, everything in the South American rainforest would have drowned long since.

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