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dbrad4d

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How much does weather effect the burn of a cigar?

For nearly two weeks we have had rainy, humid weather (not uncommon for Alabama). The one or two days it did not rain, it was very humid. I haven't been able to get a really decent burn on any stick I've smoked. This morning I couldn't even get a match to burn well.

My humidor is in a room where the temperature stays fairly constant around 70 degrees, a little cooler at night (around 66 when I get up at 4:30 am). Humidity readings have been between 70 and 75, usually closer to 70. Humidor has been this way for a while and I haven't had the burn problem.
 
maybe lower the RH in the humidor?? I think it might help, but im not getting perfect burns here either. Although they are burning well enough to smoke and im smoking inside.
 
I wasn't worried too much about the humi RF since the temperature in the room seldom gets above 70 (my a/c bill is more than my car payment some months). I think I read something about the humidity needing to be a little higher if the temperature was below 70. Anyway, I don't have any humidification device in it right now. Took it out a couple of weeks ago when the rain started.

The only change I've made to my humi was to move my Honduran Primeros and IT Fires to a playmate sized coolerdor to make more room for some more expensive sticks.
 
Get your RH down in the humidor box to 67%. Buy a digital Hygo for an accurate reading. To bring down the RH more it to a cooler part of the house and add strips of cedar. As long as outdoor RH is not higher than say 80% your should be fine. Otherwise try to smoke indoors. Hope this helps.
 
MY problem is that my Temp get's in the high 70's but my RH always remain where I want it!
 
Well, RH is well, relative humidity so the humidity reading should be RELATIVE to the temperature.

Your humidor's main purpose is to keep the inside stable, even if the outside is unstable. Though, once you take a cigar out of the humidor (when you smoke it), it's no longer in a stable environment and super humid weather will begin to take it's effect on a cigar. It's possible that the cigar just soaked in a lot of humidity and because of that, the burn was off.
 
Humidity has been running 67% - 70%, about same as you humidor. Outside temp's running mid to high 80's, higher than your humidor.
Could the combination of humidity and elevated temp's create the bad burn ?
Would a little time out of the humidor to acclimate help ?
 
Out of luck for a cooler place in the house for the humidor. 66 to 70 degrees is pretty constant for the room where it is. I have some spanish cedar on the way (bought some on ebay) that I will be able to cut some additional dividers from. Going to use some of it in my small coolerdor.

I keep them in a 8 cigar plastic case (perfecto travel humi) during the day. Probably not the best storage, but it does keep them from getting squashed in my laptop case.

As montnoir said, I think it's possible that the cigars soak up the moisture in the air from the time I take them out of the humi in the morning and smoke them during the day. Accoring to the NWS the humidity here went from a high of 100% (5am)to a low of 58% (1pm) yesterday. I leave the house about 6:30 am.

Thanks for the input. Any other suggestions appreciated.
 
I find that different makes of sticks need different RH levels as well. For instance my darker leaf wrappers and allot of the fuente's product line I have found to burn best if sleeping in a humi at about 65% RH. I know that isn't very scientific, but for the day I'm having, it'll do! Try, if possible, to lower the Rh a bit and see what you end up with!
 
Yes that is a good point. Cuban cigars especially need to age and sit at lower RH if you want the at their best.
 
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