eli5: Why does air feel colder when you’re in motion?
In: Physics
* You body produces heat inside itself.
* It “feels” cool when that heat leaves your body.
* Normally that heat, heats up the air around you skin.
* But if that warm air is moved away and replaced by cooler air, then you body can release more heat…which feels cool to you.
* So as long as the air moving over your skin is cooler than the heat you’re releasing…you will feel “cool”.
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