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The actual temperature is only part of the equation.
Your body does not actually feel temperature. The body feels the transfer of heat.
This is why metals feel colder than wood, when they both are the same temperature (assuming they are both below 37 or so degrees, if they are warmer than that, the metal would actually feel hotter).
So the temperature feels lower when the heat is transferred away from your body faster. For example when it is windy, it feels colder. (Hence why we use fans, fans don’t actually make the room colder, but they do help with transferring your own body heat away from you). When there is a high humidity it can feel either colder or warmer, depending on other factors.
Water does transfer heat well, this is why it could feel a lot colder when there is a lot of moisture in the air in winter. But on the other hand, when it is hot outside, the moisture also prevents your sweat from being absorbed by the air, which means your primary means of cooling down no longer functions, which means it feels much hotter. So moisture, depending on context, can make it feel hotter or colder.
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