A Nice Cuppa

[sandyRoe]

Is it really the thing to cool you down in this hot weather?

[tonyav]

Da management have been dishing out orange squash at work today with some sort of salty stuff in it, gawd it tasted manky.

[Old_Geezer]

Sweat can cool you down if the air isn't saturated. But if the weather is hot you are doing that anyway, and feeling damp and sticky. IMO little point in making yourself even hotter in order to sweat even more in the hope of it cooling you a bit.

[Sqad]

Vulcan:
The body is only cooled in sweating when the sweat evaporates.
Initially the skin is covered in sweat which is not seen (Insensible sweat) and when this evaporates......the body temperature falls.
The next stage is "perceptive sweat"...you can see it and feel it and when this evaporates, the body is cooled.

NOW......when you sweat to such an extent that it "drips off you" it doesn't have time to evaporate and hence has no effect on body cooling.

So you see, there is sweat and there is sweat.....;-)

[stuey]

And that's precisely why, when after taking a really hot shower and open the shower curtain or doors, you start to feel cool: it's the result of the relatively cool air in the rest of the bathroom evaporating the water from your body.