Common Sense and Clothes Drying

We are all brought up with ideas learned from our parents and from society - things that are held to be true, are common sense. When these ideas are totally wrong it is always an uphill struggle to try and convince people of the failure of common wisdom.

At the moment it is mid-March and it is snowing. Because of this fact, I am doing as much laundry as I can. What? Are you crazy? Drying clothes in sub-zero temperatures! The best day for drying clothes is when it is baking hot, as hot as possible!

Er, no.

Ever since I put thermometers around my apartment, I've also been watching the humidity levels - the humidity measurements of these electronic thermometers was something I had no interest in previously. However, logic tells me the lower the humidity the faster clothes will dry. And guess what, when it is freezing outside, inside the heating is on and the humidity levels in my apartment at 25% are drier than the Atacama Desert. So clothes dry in a couple of hours! When it's mid summer and hot, the humidity here is over 50%, and clothes often take a couple of days to dry...

So when the snow falls, I get as much clothes washing done as possible. Illogical heh?