So, you can imagine New Times' surprise in finding out our swampy city did not make the list of America's clammiest locales.
A grave injustice, we know.
In home-service website Thumback's new survey of the "10 Sweatiest Cities in the U.S," our neighbor to the north, West Palm Beach, instead made the grade, ranking eighth on the list. Austin, Texas tops the list, followed by Atlanta, Washington D.C., and Dallas-Fort Worth.
The survey examined which of the top 40 metropolitan areas (according to Nielsen data) have made the most requests for cooling projects such as air conditioning repair, maintenance, or installation. The study adjusted for population size by ranking cities based on the number of project requests per capita.
As with Texas, Georgia, and Washington D.C., heat advisories have piled up in South Florida this summer, with the National Weather Service (NWS) issuing regular notices cautioning residents about extreme temperatures.
Last summer was the hottest on record worldwide, with unprecedented temperatures causing climate-related disasters across the globe. The extreme heat in South Florida even triggered Miami's first "excessive heat" advisory and shattered daily-high temperature records for seven July dates.
The full list of the ten sweatiest cities follows:
- Austin
- Atlanta
- Washington, D.C.
- Dallas-Fort Worth
- Charlotte
- Baltimore
- Denver
- West Palm Beach
- Houston
- Orlando
