Enough Sweat To Fill An Olympic Sized Swimming Pool

[Lorena]

Old Spice Names Phoenix The Sweatiest City In America (http://www.oldspice.com/pdfs/OS_Sweatiest_Cities_2006.pdf)


The average Phoenix resident produced 26 ounces of sweat per hour during a typical summer day in 2005. In less than three hours, residents of Phoenix collectively produce enough sweat to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool! The city’s average high temperature last year was 93.3 degrees – compared to a cool 63.2 degrees for San Francisco, the nation’s least sweaty city.

In recognition of its top placement on the list, Old Spice will deliver a year’s supply of Old Spice Red Zone antiperspirant, the strongest form of wetness protection available for guys, to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon.

While Phoenix is still the nation’s sweatiest city, the state of Texas is perhaps the sweatiest state in the country. Six of its cities – Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Waco – all rank in the Top 10 when it comes to sweat production. And while Phoenix tops all other cities in terms of pure sweat production, you’re likely to find the weather in Miami a lot less comfortable. The combination of heat and humidity there results in sweat that doesn’t easily evaporate – which leads to soaked shirts and sweaty brows.

The Top 100 Sweatiest Cities:

1. Phoenix, AZ
2. Las Vegas, NV
3. Tucson, AZ
4. Dallas, TX
5. Corpus Christi, TX
6. San Antonio, TX
7. Austin, TX
8. Shreveport, LA
9. Houston, TX
10. Waco, TX
11. Miami, FL
12. New Orleans, LA
13. Orlando, FL
14. Tampa, FL
15. West Palm Beach, FL
16. Honolulu, HI
17. El Paso, TX
18. Memphis, TN
19. Fort Myers, FL
20. Baton Rouge, LA
21. Little Rock, AR
22. Mobile, AL
23. Jacksonville, FL
24. Tulsa, OK
25. Fresno, CA
26. Jackson, MS
27. Savannah, GA
28. Montgomery, AL
29. Nashville, TN
30. Columbia, SC
31. Oklahoma City, OK
32. Raleigh, NC
33. St Louis, MO
34. Birmingham, AL
35. Huntsville, AL
36. Richmond, VA
37. Louisville, KY
38. Chattanooga, TN
39. Washington DC
40. Wichita, KS
41. Omaha, NE
42. Norfolk, VA
43. Springfield, MO
44. Virginia Beach, VA
45. Atlanta, GA
46. Greensboro, NC
47. Charlotte, NC
48. Philadelphia, PA
49. Albuquerque, NM
50. Knoxville, TN
51. Columbus, OH
52. Kansas City, MO
53. Evansville, IN
54. Lexington, KY
55. Wilkes-Barre, PA
56. Cincinnati, OH
57. Harrisburg, PA
58. Baltimore, MD
59. Charleston, WV
60. Springfield, IL
61. Moline, IL
62. New York, NY
63. Roanoke, VA
64. Indianapolis, IN
65. Des Moines, IA
66. Bristol, TN
67. Salt Lake City, UT
68. Detroit, MI
69. Sacramento, CA
70. Chicago, IL
71. Dayton, OH
72. Toledo, OH
73. Cleveland, OH
74. Minneapolis, MN
75. Hartford, CT
76. South Bend, IN
77. Syracuse, NY
78. Providence, RI
79. Pittsburgh, PA
80. Albany, NY
81. Buffalo, NY
82. Asheville, NC
83. Grand Rapids, MI
84. Milwaukee, WI
85. Rochester, NY
86. Boston, MA
87. Denver, CO
88. Madison, WI
89. Flint, MI
90. Youngstown, OH
91. Burlington, VT
92. Los Angeles, CA
93. Green Bay, WI
94. San Diego, CA
95. Colorado Springs, CO
96. Portland, ME
97. Portland, OR
98. Spokane, WA
99. Seattle, WA
100. San Francisco, CA

[Pumpy Tudors]

OK, I'm going to do the FOFC nitpicking on this one. The article refers to San Francisco as "the nation's least sweaty city," but it rates as #100 on the list. So the nation only has 100 cities in it now? Oh, my!!!

:)

[WSUCougar]

Drat, I thought this thread was going to be about Esteban Yan.

And St. Louis at only #33? They clearly need to spend a summer here.

[ISiddiqui]

Hell, Atlanta is #45, and I'm sure it's worse here than in St. Louis ;).

[TroyF]

Tulsa 24, OKC 31. The cities are a freakin hour apart. That's worth seven spots?

[Bee]

Atlanta is only #45? Did someone just take a list of cities and randomly sort them or something?

[Critch]

I think I bump up Washington a couple of places on my own. I'm not used to the heat being a shiney white Northern European, I'm a touch portly, and I can't take the humidity.

Add it all up and I will be sweating like a whore's ass for 6 months of the year.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

We're number one! Wooo! :p

[WSUCougar]

But it's a dry heat...

[JeeberD]

This thing is crap. El Paso was #1 a few years ago and the reason listed was "because of the humidity combined with the heat." Uhhh...El Paso is about as dry as it gets, folks.

[Passacaglia]

You mean the sweat inspector didn't come by to check your armpits once a week? They were pretty forceful about it around here. They told me my sweat alone bumped us past Dayton and Toledo.

[MalcPow]

Tulsa 24, OKC 31. The cities are a freakin hour apart. That's worth seven spots?

Meh, Tulsa's more humid, to me at least. They both get darn hot though.

[Subby]

Thanks, I hadn't vomited yet this morning... :barfingsmiley:
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[Fonzie]

As a former resident of Tucson I can testity to the amount of sweat one must produce to maintain a reasonable internal body temperature. When we moved back to the midwest I put on a couple of pounds of water weight almost immediately.

The terrible thing is that in Arizona it is indeed a dry heat, meaning that the sweat immediately evaporates and leaves you with the impression that you are not, in fact, all that sweaty. That, in turn, seems to lead people to think that they're not losing quite as much fluid as they really are. Estimates I'd seen were that about 50% of Tucson residents were chronically dehydrated, which is not good.

On the plus side, the intense heat meant that many of the young ladies at the university walked around wearing minimal clothing. That was often a pleasing thing.

[AZSpeechCoach]

I have no chance. I live in Phoenix, grew up in Tucson (and am going back there this weekend), and just spent a week in Dallas. I must love sweating.

[PackerFanatic]

Green Bay and Madison? Wow!

[Schmidty]

#83 is Grand Rapids - I'm telling you, in the summer there's nowhere sweatier that I've lived, other than the swamps of Kissimmee, FL.

[Schmidty]

Dola,

That was a really awkward sentence.

[Chubby]

77th oh yeah.


Remind me why this matters again.

[MalcPow]

77th oh yeah.


Remind me why this matters again.

I think there's gonna be an Old Spice Sweat Super Tourney on OLN next month. This was for seeding purposes.

[rkmsuf]

I'm fascinated how this is calculated.

What do they get volunteers that go someplace and sweat?

[Schmidty]

I'm fascinated how this is calculated.

What do they get volunteers that go someplace and sweat?

Maybe it's calculated by the heat index average for each city.

[stevew]

The title of this thread makes me want to barf.

[oliegirl]

The title of this thread makes me want to barf.


I agree!

But there is NO way that Atlanta is #45...should at least be in the top 15 or 20!