# It's Too Darn Hot

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010 "2000-05-31T15:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010/1 "2000-05-31T15:13:07Z")

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For those of you who aren’t Broadway musical buffs, this refers to a lament of the male libido dropping as the temperature rises. And personally, it refers to the damn air conditioning in my office being broken.

Does anyone know where I can find analyses of birth rates by month? If it’s too darn hot in June, July, and August, shouldn’t the birth rate drop in March, April, and May – especially in the pre-air conditioning era? Or are there enough couples out there who feel like as long as they’re already hot and sweaty. . .

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**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010/2 "2000-05-31T15:25:15Z")

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heck, give me hot and sweaty any day, the heat just turns me on more…

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010/3 "2000-05-31T16:51:36Z")

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I did something just like this recently.

I have access to a database of about 900,000 birthdates.

September was the peak month for births (about 10% higher than the mean).

May was the low month (about 10% lower than the mean).

I’ll see if I can dig up my numbers.

I’d be curious to see, though, how this varies according to climate.

I’m in SC, where there’s about a month of cold weather, three months of cool weather, five months of pleasant weather, and three months where the only thing separating you from Hell is a screen door.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-darn-hot/21010/4 "2000-05-31T17:17:42Z")

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If you can find a copy of “Vital Statistics of the United States”, you can find your answer. The Federal government tracks births (and deaths) by months.  
It’s available at your bigger public libraries. I would think that you might be able to find it online if you look hard enough.

The last time I looked at it, September had the highest birth rate, but August had the most births because it had one extra day.