LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Wed Jun 21, 11:00 AM ET
If you ever need to fill a swimming pool with sweat, and you need to do it in a hurry, you might enlist the entire population of Phoenix, Ariz., home to the sweatiest people in the nation.
Phoenix adult residents sweat so much that the city's perspiration could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in less than three hours.
For the second year in a row, Phoenix has earned the dubious honor of topping the Top-100 Sweatiest Cities list, a ranking of the nation's heaviest sweaters during the summer months as determined by researchers at Procter and Gamble.
During a typical summer day in 2005, an average Phoenix adult secreted 26 ounces of sweat per hour while walking outdoors. Phoenix's average high temperature during the summer months—June, July, and August—for 2005 was 93.3 degrees Fahrenheit.
No. 100 on the list, San Francisco, checked in at a breezy 63.2 degrees during the same months.
The Top 10:
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Tucson, Ariz.
Dallas
Corpus Christi, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Austin, Texas
Shreveport, La.
Houston
Waco, Texas
Although Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Tucson have become fixtures atop the list, Austin and Shreveport are newcomers, rising from 21 and 25 last year, respectively.
The results were based on the amount of sweat an adult of average height and weight would produce while walking for an hour in the average high temperatures, according to NOAA data.
Nasty
