Give reasons: (i) Wet clothes take longer time to dry on a humid day. (ii) Amount of insolation decreases from equator torwards poles?

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asked Mar 13, 2018 in Geography by shabnam praween (19,050 points) 5 6 8

Give reasons:
(i) Wet clothes take longer time to dry on a humid day.
(ii) Amount of insolation decreases from equator torwards poles?

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answered Mar 13, 2018 by mdsamim (213,225 points) 5 10 15

(i) On a humid day the air is full of water vapour. Hence, evaporation is very slow. This is the reason why wet clothes take longer time to dry on a humid day.
(ii) Insolation comes through vertical rays on equator. Thus, it covers up less space but we feel more heat there when it goes up from equator towards poles, the sun rays become slanting. Needless to say that slanting rays come on the earth covering longer distance. Although these slanting rays heat up more space, the degree of hotness is felt less. This is the reason why amount of insolation decreases from equator towards poles.

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