El Paso, Texas Named Sweatiest U.S. City

[Champ]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Sun City" Texas just became Sweat City U.S.A.



El Paso, Texas, with average summer temperatures above 93 degrees Fahrenheit and relative humidity over 70 percent, is the sweatiest city in the United States, a study released on Tuesday found.


Research scientist Tim Long calculated heat indexes and relative humidity levels to come up with his top 100 sweatiest cities in America list.


By Long's calculations, in just four hours, El Paso's residents produce enough sweat to fill an Olympic swimming (news - web sites) pool, with individuals shedding more than 36 fluid ounces of perspiration an hour.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20040616/od_nm/life_sweaty_dc

[TrueAmerican]

1. I only been here 5 months

But I haven't experience any humidity yet.

I've been to Florida and the east coast and sweated a lot more.

[sam sarrha]

2. i just moved out of El Paso.. it has NO humidity!! it is an upland desert

You are lucky to get around 6% humidity, It is the worst place i ever lived. Dusty, just miserable.. The business there operates with the Border Sweat Shop mentality... the Mean income is $14,000 annually. there are Beggers nearly on every intersection.. I was paying $1,700 annual property taxes on a rickety shack. drive bys... the city gov is going to run out of water in 4 or 5 years and they approve artificial lake gated communities.. a HUGE lake of pumped well water. the water had 68ppb arsnic...up to 168 admitted.. they dint have to tell you what it is, 3 is too much... the Asarco plant pumped out VAST amounts of arsenic for decades unabated.. now the whole west side is contaminated. the schools have about 50,000 nonresident children from Mexico getting a taxpayers funded education..

one of the large part of my property taxes was the Thomasin Hospital to provide free treatment for Mexican citizens/nonresidents.. who cross the border in labor with no previous medical care for the entire pregnancy.. and then the mother has a crisis and the birth is traumatic and easily goes over a Million dollars.. simply because all border cities get 1/2 the state funding of all others..the legislature , that meets every 2 years, wont fund medical "Clinics" which you see closed all over town.. hell there are rich republicans that need that money for pork.

if you take the bus across town and back u will spend over 8 hours on the bus, if it doesn't break down or catch on fire.

but it is in the upper Chauwawann desert it evaporates 8 inches more water annually that falls on the ground. your nose lips crack and bleed. you get epoxy buggers way up your nose that remain till you move to another location. you sweat so much and it is so dusty your body gets gritty.

it was not my favorite place

[candy]

3. I guess El Paso is off my list of places to visit-sounds awful.

[Piltdown13]

16. Well, it's really not that horrible, IMHO

Yes, the city has water problems, and all the difficulties associated with being a border town -- El Paso/Juarez is really one large city that just happens to have an international border down the middle. But there are not beggars on every corner; I actually saw a lot more panhandlers on a daily basis living in Boston. I also rather doubt that there are 50,000 illegal kids in the EP school system -- back in the early 1990s, at least the EPISD started requiring a utility bill in a parent's name to enroll kids in school, among other measures...and enrollment at my high school, which is very near the border, dropped by a few hundred. And EP is largely ignored by the state legislature, probably because there's really no money to speak of there.

Of course, it's probably different for someone who moved to El Paso after having lived other places than for those of us who grew up there.

[CatWoman]

4. I fully concur

I lived there for six months.

Couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

[TX-RAT]

6. Miserable place

Have been to meetings there several times, always dreaded it.

[GOPisEvil]

7. My thoughts exactly!

Does this guy know what he's talking about?

New Orleans and Houston are FAR sweatier than El Paso.

El Pas gets hot, but it's fairly dry.

[XNASA]

5. No Way. That story is nuts!!

Anyone who has ever been to Houston knows about sweat.

El Paso is in the high desert. If I know my high desert climate (and I think I do)..then it's probably quite pleasant compared to places like New Orleans and Jackson, MS, etc.......

[HuckleB]

9. Indeed.

Seattle and Portland, OR are ranked higher than Chicago and Milwaukee. This doesn't make sense at all. There is less heat and far less humidity when it is warm in the northwest than in the midwest. It's quite basic, actually.

[XNASA]

14. Consider that in Chicago there is no sweating at all...........

From October through about May. That's 8 months with practically no humidity, no bugs and no sweating.

Granted, it can get pretty sticky in July, but it only lasts a couple of days, then goes away...and the pattern repeats.

[HuckleB]

17. Same in the northwest, unless you're counting rain.

And Seattle and Portland have no humidity in the summer. You can't beat a summer in the northwest when it comes to weather.

Sorry, I grew up in southwest Wisconsin and my wife is from Chicago. I know the difference.

[johnnie]

11. I have heard about Houston

I hate the humidity and heat and even my friends in northern Texas won't go there. I am thinking of going to Fort worth area this year, and I don't know if I can take that heat.

[Bridget Burke]

12. Clue: Don't go to any part of Texas in the Summer.

If you're afraid of heat, it will do you in.

Spring & Fall can be quite pleasant. In Houston, we also have lots of good days in winter. The Metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth) gets colder in the winter. Also generally hotter in the summer, but we do have the edge on humidity.

[HuckleB]

8. Phoenix downgraded from number one to number 3 in the hell on earth

rankings.

This is big news!

:)

[AlCzervik]

10. I used to live in a suburb of Houston

called Spring, TX and the heat was awful but the worst part was the humidity. You would take a shower, get dressed and go outside, you felt like you needed another shower right away. It was like breeathing through a wet face cloth.

[Trailrider1951]

13. Yeppers, Houston is sweat city!

It's like living in a steam bath from April till October. Nice in December and January, though.

[candy]

20. The only time I've ever been in Houston it was the first week of December

The weather was georgeous.

[Piltdown13]

15. Where does this guy get his info?

I grew up in El Paso, and just about the only time you get humidity that's higher than the low teens is when it's RAINING -- which is not often, given that the average rainfall is around 7 inches per year.

Hot and dusty, yes. Humid, definitely not. I find the summer heat here in central Indiana much more unpleasant -- it may be ten degrees cooler, but the humidity more than makes up for it.

[arbusto_baboso]

18. Fort Bliss: the most hilarious misnamed place on the planet! eom

[bmbmd]

19. The only thing I like about El Paso

is that most homes and extablishments(at least the ones I frequent) have old timey evaporative coolers. I love that smell-it is a delicious kind of cool. Unfortunately, they only work in extreme low humidity-like El Paso. Doubt if El Paso has ever seen a humidity of seventy per cent unless it was raining.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

21. This person is obviously NOT

spending his time traipsing around dahntahn Pittsburgh in a business suit while trying to keep cool and look good in court.