[Tfug] *Way* OT: Swamp coolers, ACbrrs, etc.

[Bexley Hall]

--- johngalt1 <johngalt1 at uswest.net> wrote:

> I say this sweatiest city list is a bunch of crap.
> Rather, it is a marketing 
> vehicle for Old Spice.
> 
> Methodology
> 
> The Sweatiest Cities rankings are based on computer
> simulations of the 
> amount of sweat a person of average height and
> weight would produce walking 
> around for an hour in the average high temperatures
> during June, July and 
> August of 2006 for each city.

That's the flaw in the argument -- you would
*produce* that much perspiration (because your
body has to manage that increased thermal load)
but the perspiration would *instantly* evaporate!

Contrast this with a nice, *cool* 80 degree day
in Chi-town -- with 60-80%RH where that perspiration
*never* evaporates!

I landscaped the yard in 110+ weather (I recall
seeing the yard thermometer read 117 one of those
days) yet I never felt as "sweaty" as *any* summer
day in Chicago, etc.

Witness how people have to be *reminded* to drink
water, here.  Because you don't *feel* like you have
perspired -- even in the outrageous heat!  (as an
aside, I never realized just how much water your
body can move out through the skin!!)


       
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