Houston isn't America's sweatiest city

Somehow we missed another of Houston's national top 10 list appearances: According to the folks at Old Spice, Houston is the ninth sweatiest city in the U.S. We suppose that explains the smell. Really, people, use some deodorant!

The study estimated the amount of sweat a person of average height and weight produces walking around outdoors for an hour in a city's average high summer temperature, then ranked 100 cities based on the findings. According to that, Phoenix is the country's sweatiest city for the second year in a row: Each Phoenixian Phoenixite Phoenixer person in Phoenix produces, on average, 26 ounces of sweat an hour, or slightly more than two soda cans' worth. If they worked together, the people of Phoenix could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool with sweat in less than three hours, though we don't know exactly why they'd want to. We assume it would take Houstonians quite a bit longer. We hope we never find out.

Texas is, not surprisingly, well-represented on the sweat list: Dallas ranks fourth, Corpus Christi fifth, San Antonio sixth, Austin seventh, Waco 10th and El Paso 17th. Interestingly enough, Miami ranks No. 11, but Procter & Gamble says its combination of heat and humidity make it the country's most uncomfortable city. "In Phoenix you sweat much more than in Miami, but it evaporates quickly as it is such dry air so you don't notice as much. In Miami the sweat stays on your skin," Jay Gooch, a sweat expert at Old Spice, told Reuters.

By the way, if you want a break from the sweat, head to Seattle or San Fransicso, which rank 99th and 100th on the list, respectively.