Don't Sweat It!
Stinky! Top 10 Sweatiest U.S. Cities
Hmm... I'm wondering about Phoenix in the top spot. True, the temperature there can get up to 120º sometimes, but my experience—yes, I've been there when it was nearly that hot—has been that you don't actually sweat—the moisture is sucked straight from your skin into the air, never having a sweaty stage, because the humidity is so low. Okay, I do define "sweat" as the moist droplets pooling up on the skin and this study no doubt is simply looking at total water lost from the body, but still...
Now if you ask me, Houston, which came in second on the list, really deserves top honors. (Lived there for 10 months, so again I'm speaking from personal experience.) The humidity is always so high that you always feel damp. You don't dare just leave a towel on the floor after a shower because the mildew will be growing on it already if you go back an hour later. I've even seen it rain out of a clear blue sky! Needless to say, perspiration doesn't evaporate at all. I was wet and sticky every day I was in Houston and that is my most dominant memory of the place. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!
I note with pleasure that Seattle is one of the least sweaty cities. No wonder I like it here so much!
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