2007-06-20 06:29:26 · 8 answers · asked by abhishek t 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Hey. We all know sweating acts to cool you down, but how? Basically the water (sweat) on your skin absorbs the heat from your body, then evaporates into the air and therefore takes the heat away with it. But, theres such a thing called saturation - of the air with water. The more water in the air, the more humid it is. So if the air is completely saturated with water, that is, the air cannot contain any more water, then the water cannot evaporate from your body. So your question isn't exactly true, you can still sweat in humid weather (produce water from your body), but the sweat cannot evaporate and so you get very hot, very fast :) People describe this inability to evaporate sweat in humid weather as "the sweat is pouring off me!!!"
2007-06-20 06:38:26 · answer #1 · answered by silverfox 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Humidity is the measure of moisture in the air and actually where there is a lot of moisture in the air it makes it harder for the body to sweat, but sweat it still does.
"Under conditions of high humidity, the evaporation of sweat from the skin is decreased and the body's efforts to maintain an acceptable body temperature may be significantly impaired." According to Wikipedia that is.
I live in the south east and it gets very hot and very humid here and there is no one I know that does not sweat. Possibly you just don't notice the sweat because the humid moisture that gathers upon your skin? I don't know. Hope this helps.
2007-06-20 07:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by Shewolf Silver Shadows/Author 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sweat any time your body needs to cool off. The only difference in humid and non-humid days is that the air has more moisture in it and it takes it longer to evaporate off of your body. At 100% humidity the sweat wouldn't evaporate at all.
2007-06-20 06:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Ret68 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about you, but I live in a very humid area (Long Island, New York) and I sweat in humid weather when it's hot out.
2007-06-20 06:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure you have put that question the way you meant it...I don't know anyone who DOESN'T sweat in humid weather.
2007-06-20 06:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by bin there dun that 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we sweat in humid wheather
the water that comes out from our body dissolves in air if water in air has not reached its saturation point
saturation point:
the maximum amount of water in air at a given temperature and pressure.saturation point can be said as (ex = 200 grams of water in 1000 metre cube of air at 40 degrees centigrate and one atmosphreic pressure)
when saturation point is reached
the water cannot be dissloved hence the sweat remains as water itself
2007-06-20 06:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by vicky 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have obviously never been to Louisiana in the summer.
2007-06-20 06:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by Hakker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my guess, is if you're NOT sweating, you need to drink more water. because you are dehydrated.
2007-06-20 15:25:09 · answer #8 · answered by joseph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋