How does wind feel cool on the skin even if the air itself isn’t a low temperature?

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How does wind feel cool on the skin even if the air itself isn’t a low temperature?

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It’s actually because of evaporative cooling. Your body releases small water molecules through skin pores all the time. Even at the same temperature the dry wind sucks some of the fastest moving (hottest) H2O molecules thus cooling you down. That’s why hot dry air feels cool but humid hot air does not.

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