A humid place? How would I say that?

Question

I'm trying to say Washington D.C. was more humid than another state.

Do I use hace like I do with other weather conditions and say the weather was humid in Washington D.C.? Exactly how?

-or-

Do I use humid as an adjective and just say Washington D.C. was a humid city or something like that?

muchas gracias

Answer 1

Alana

During the summer when we associate heat and humidity indexes with the weather.....in Spanish you would say....."hoy hay mucha humedad en Washington D.C." (not everyday it would be so humid in D.C. necessarily) or you could say "hoy es un dia bastante humedo en Washington D.C." Another way could be "hace mucha humedad hoy en Washington D.C.".....hope it helps.

Answer 2

Alana

During the summer when we associate heat and humidity indexes with the weather.....in Spanish you would say....."hoy esta haciendo mucha humedad en Washington D.C." (not everyday it would be so humid in D.C. necessarily) or you could say "hoy es un dia bastante humedo en Washington D.C." Another way could be "hace mucha humedad hoy en Washington D.C.".....hope it helps.

Answer 3

Thank you, that helps.

Could there be regional variation on these, as in the discussion of whether or not to say "hace humedad", above? I was taught to say "hace llueve" for "it's rainy" and "hace nieve" for "it's snowy".

Answer 4

Gracias, la explicación me ayuda. ¡Es tan facil estar perezosa, y no usar el subjuntivo correctamente!

Answer 5

Natasha,
Trifasik has already corrected "haga llueve," but to answer your question, yes, it is standard for the subjunctive to be used twice when necessary. It is needed twice here because 1) the negative of pensar is used, which the rule says implies doubt, and 2) you are using a phrase starting with "posibilidad de que," which again implies doubt. You could also say "Dudo que haya la posibilidad de que llueva hoy."

Another example: Es una lástima que busques a una persona pueda hablar chino (porque no hay tal persona por acá).

Busques is subjunctive because it follows an impersonal phrase (es ... que), and pueda is subjunctive because the person discussed is imaginary at this point.

Actually, the subjunctive could be used any number of times in a sentence, depending on the need.

Answer 6

I would say:

"No pienso que haya ninguna posibilidad de que llueva hoy, porque es un dia soleado."

You may say "hacer calor" or "hacer frío" but not "hacer lluvia", you have the specific verb "llover".

Answer 7

Is that standard, to use the subjunctive twice in the sentence? What about this:

"No pienso que haya ninguna posibilidad de que haga llueve hoy, porque es un dia soleado."

Answer 8

"No creo que haya ningún estado donde haga menos humedad que en Arizona"

Answer 9

!Gracias!

Answer 10

¡Tienes razón!

Espero que no te ofenda, pero sería mejor decir: !no creo que haya ningun estado...

Por estar en forma negativa el verbo creer aquí.

Answer 11

Bueno, !no creo que hay ningun estado donde hace menos humedad que en Arizona!

Answer 12

I don't think the OP implied that D.C. is the most humid place in the US, and is just saying that it is more humid than some unnamed state with which it is being compared. For example, "D.C. is more humid than Arizona."

Answer 13

Even more picky point: I live in Missouri, have worked in the D.C. area, and am not at all convinced that D.C. is the most humid place in the U.S. Has anyone ever been to Florida in the summer? There's a reason people have WINTER vacation homes there . . .

BTW there should be an accent on the u in "humedo", according to my dictionary.

Answer 14

Picky point: The Spanish advice from Scarlet sounds good, but D.C. is not a state, so you can't say "que otros estados," or "than another state," for that matter. You could say "than other parts/regions of the US," or "que otras partes de los EEUU."

Answer 15

In Spain we say: "hace mucha humedad", when the humidity level is high but not "tiene mucha humedad" (the atmosphere)