Even if there was not a great drought, moisture may have been coming at the wrong times.

This was where the moisture came from, for the condensers.

"This is the kind of thing that, any other year, would wait until early fall, when the moisture came back into the air," she said.

Keep blotting, but don't rub, until no more moisture comes to the surface.

And perhaps the moisture came from aquifers, still extant below the ground.

My face felt wet, and I wondered where the moisture had come from.

An unfamiliar and disconcerting moisture had come into them.

Additional moisture comes from more local sources, especially transpiring vegetation.

You also don't have to water it in; it will stay in the soil ready to work when moisture comes later.

The moisture was coming hard and free now, and his lower face was covered.