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why is Texas air pressure dry?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Actually it depends on where in Texas you are. Areas along the Gulf Coast, with its ready source of evaporating water, are often quite humid. In general, the prevailing humidity drops and one moves westward across the state. In western sections, there is no body of water nearby, and the air that moves into the region has traveled long distances over the continent and not had any large source of water it can tap. In addition, the air is often moving down out of mountainous regions, which warms the air, further drying it out.

Sometimes the boundary between a drier and a more humid air mass can be quite sharp, and thunderstorms (frequently severe) commonly form along what is called a "dry line" in the western part of the state and move eastward toward the middle of Texas.

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