Why do you sweat more when it is humid?

Answer 1

You don't actually sweat more, you just see your sweat when it's humid. This is why.

Realtive humidity:
A quantity expressing humidity as a percentage of the maximum absolute humidity for that particular temperature.

Suppose on a certain day, the air is holding half as much moisture as it possibly can. The relative humidity is then 50%. In the same way, if the air is holding all of the moisture that it can possibly hold, the relative humidity is 100%.

This is why on a humid day outside, you "sweat more" than when it is not humid. The air can only hold a little or no more moisture, so your sweat can't evaporate, and rolls off your skin.

I hope this is all the info you needed! Have a great day!

Answer 2

You don't sweat more when it is humid. The humid air is more saturated with water than dry air. Since water or sweat evaporation is driven vapor pressure, the humid air has a lower pressure differential your sweat does not evaporate as fast.

Answer 3

It's "Humid", that's why it is so uncomfortable, perspiration is designed to cool the body through "Evaporation", if the air is "Humid" and has a high concentration of water vapor in it, your perspiration does not evaporate well, hindering it's "COOLING" effect, so the body perspires more to cool better.

Answer 4

You actually don't. It just evaporates more slowly when it's humid since the partial pressure of water vapor is higher.


Doug

Answer 5

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