The Sweatiest Cities in America

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:25 pm

By Bjorn Carey
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 monthsâ€”June, July, and Augustâ€”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 :ugh:

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:28 pm

i can agree with houston... i think it was 110+ in the shade last time i was there

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:07 pm

I hope they didnt waste like ... money to figure this shit out.

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:28 pm

Texas? Hot? No fucking way.

Waste of time research is what that was.

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:40 pm

These places are rather dry though right? I'm leaving for Shanghai on the 29th of this month. The city averages 39-41 Celcius during July.... It's also VERY humid. This is coming from someone who lives on a tropical island...

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:22 pm

No, Houston is on the Gulf of Mexico. I swear to God water droplets formed on my watch when I walked to the store

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:23 pm

Oh okies... I had no idea ><

KILL · Post by **KILL** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:25 am

I grew up in Tucson.. it is hot as fuck there in the summer but there is typically like 10% humidity. You sweat WAY more in places with higher humidity. This study is :dung:

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:27 am

Actually, you'll sweat equally in both places. The difference is, in places like Phoenix and Tucson, the sweat actually evaporates. In places with high humidity, there's already more water in the air so the sweat doesn't evaporate anywhere near as readily, so it stays on you. You FEEL sweatier, sure, but that's just cause of the differences in evaporation rates.

-Arlos

Donnel · Post by **Donnel** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:54 am

So how did they figure this out? Areas where there's high temperature and low antiperspirent sales?

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:01 am

Donnel wrote:So how did they figure this out? Areas where there's high temperature and low antiperspirent sales?

They had scientists with sponges going to all these cities to do this research.

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:35 am

arlos wrote:Actually, you'll sweat equally in both places. The difference is, in places like Phoenix and Tucson, the sweat actually evaporates. In places with high humidity, there's already more water in the air so the sweat doesn't evaporate anywhere near as readily, so it stays on you. You FEEL sweatier, sure, but that's just cause of the differences in evaporation rates.

-Arlos

Truth, except for one flaw - people stay INSIDE in Arizona and Nevada if they can help it during midday when it's hottest. We don't go outside and stay out baking in the heat. Well, unless you count being out by the pool.

That bullshit up there listing the *average* temperature for June, July, and August are bogus numbers.
Phoenix gets hotter much quicker, and stays that way longer, than Las Vegas does, and last year we didn't have a single fuckin day's high that dipped below 100F between June and August. I don't know what the meterologists are smoking, but I do know that they are regularly wrong when issuing numbers across the country.
When we were living in MN, I called home once during the summer and my dad reported to me that it had hit 115F that afternoon... yet in MN, the weather report stated that Las Vegas' high temp for the day was like 103F. Additionally, the weather report in Vegas said that St.Paul was experiencing highs that day in the near 100F area - our high was like 85F.

What a load of garbage.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:50 am

I didn't see my crotch on that list.

Snero · Post by **Snero** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:19 pm

sweatiest cities, not amusment parks

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:41 pm

It's 106 today where I live.

KILL · Post by **KILL** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:48 pm

arlos wrote:Actually, you'll sweat equally in both places. The difference is, in places like Phoenix and Tucson, the sweat actually evaporates. In places with high humidity, there's already more water in the air so the sweat doesn't evaporate anywhere near as readily, so it stays on you. You FEEL sweatier, sure, but that's just cause of the differences in evaporation rates.

-Arlos

That may be true, but if you're in a place that is so dry that sweat actually evaporates before it runs down your forehaed, you're not sweaty.

Stupid.

Snero · Post by **Snero** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:55 pm

the study was looking at amount of sweat produced, not how sweaty you felt

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:50 pm

Triel, I know how Phoenix is. I grew up there for several years when I was a kid. heh. I remember the daytime temps averaging 105-110 every single day, having the air conditioner set to 80-85, and it would feel like you were stepping into a freezer when you would come in from outside. The house we lived in had a pool, and during the summer I swam every day, basically. Never spent much time in Vegas, only went there once, and that was for like 3 days.

-Arlos

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:54 pm

That's pretty much par for Vegas as well during those months. It feels like the inside of an easybake oven outside right now ><

Btw, just for clarity, I wasn't directing my post at you. I quoted what you said because it was exactly what I was thinking, and the rest was specifically targeted towards that ridiculous study. Sorry if it appeared otherwise.

leah · Post by **leah** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:01 pm

where is the rest of the list? i'd like to check it out~

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:14 pm

leah wrote:where is the rest of the list? i'd like to check it out~

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology ... ities.html

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:38 am

leah wrote:where is the rest of the list? i'd like to check it out~

I think Leah likes sweaty men. :wink:

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:39 am

106 again today :wink:

leah · Post by **leah** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:56 pm

am i blind or did it not actually give the whole list?

i just wanted to see if there were any nebraska cities in there.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:05 pm

leah wrote:am i blind or did it not actually give the whole list?

i just wanted to see if there were any nebraska cities in there.

I didn't see Nebraska in there either. :mystery: