Hoyo de Monterrey from 1977

[Homer]

In winter the humidity is aprox 10% so the cigars are dry if they are not stored in humidor.

[Fugu]

Facts Homer:

However, the outside humidity (rH) is without a meaning without looking at temperature as well. During winter time, the air will hold less moisture (due to being colder of course), so having a look at the dew point (see below) is much more elucidating. As to be expected, there are dry months in winter and more humid months in summer, with on average a climate on the dryer side during the course of a year. However, that tells us just nothing about the actual conditions in a Helsinki basement. And on top of that, we don't know anything about the cigars' whereabouts before they came to Finland and for how long they had been held in storage there.

 

Perhaps you are right, and indeed chances seem to be higher that they are on the dryer side, I'd think so too, but instead of guessing and doing a crap shoot, I would always prefer verifying. But that's of course up to the OP what he prefers to do.

[soutso]

2 hours ago, Fugu said:

Facts Homer:

However, the outside humidity (rH) is without a meaning without looking at temperature as well. During winter time, the air will hold less moisture (due to being colder of course), so having a look at the dew point (see below) is much more elucidating. As to be expected, there are dry months in winter and more humid months in summer, with on average a climate on the dryer side during the course of a year. However, that tells us just nothing about the actual conditions in a Helsinki basement. And on top of that, we don't know anything about the cigars' whereabouts before they came to Finland and for how long they had been held in storage there.

 

Perhaps you are right, and indeed chances seem to be higher that they are on the dryer side, I'd think so too, but instead of guessing and doing a crap shoot, I would always prefer verifying. But that's of course up to the OP what he prefers to do.

Whilst air holds less water in colder temps it's my understanding that the cigars themselves (being a hygroscopic material) will hold more water in colder temps and less water in warmer temps? 

Happy to be corrected here but that's my memory of it from my Jedi training at Cigar Climatology!

[Fugu]

That's just not the point here. We were discussing the (outside) climate in good ol' Helsinki, as Homer brought up a 10% winter-rH statement.

Still that does't tell us much about actual storage conditions.

Of course, during winter, inside a house humidity will be low (influx of dry outside air that will be heated), but in summer it will be high. Tubed cigars tend to be less affected by such swings. In addition to that a basement storage will further dampen those swings and usually (depending on the type of cellar) tends to settle down on a higher year-round humidity level.

[Homer]

The chart is not about the humidity inside. In winter when we have to heat the houses the humidity % inside is not the same as outside. Inside the humidity is very low.

Even the humidity % of desktop humidors is usually much harder to keep stable in winter because of the low humidity % of inside the house.