Does rainy weather cause change in rubber performance ?

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Hi everyone, i play table tennis on the porch outside my house and there’s something i notice happening persistently every time it rains. When i play during rainy days, it feels like my rubber is very slippery and has no grip at all, balls that i could normally loop up just can’t seem to be done during rainy days and many times the balls just slips thru across the rubber. is this normal or am i just coincidently playing worse on rainy days?
 
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Humid weather makes the surface of rubbers moist so you won't get any grip. This is also why you can't glue rubber to your blade in humid conditions

while I agree with your claim that humidity lessens grip of the rubbers, glueing rubbers is not a problem when using Revolution no3 😁
............and I haven't even got any shares in the company 😁

 
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I tend to play outdoors so yeah... when it's humid/rainy we tend to use a "glass cleaning device" to clean the tables every X minutes and cannot create the same spin in the same way so I mostly hit the ball flat.
 
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