The weather has been up and down where I live lately, we just came off a period of unseasonably warm days into much cooler days. I had yet to flip the AC back over to heat until last night when my house was showing 60 degrees. At that time, my hands, feet, and nose were freezing cold. Yet 60 degrees outside is a relatively nice day and certainly doesn’t leave you feeling freezing. On the flip side, if you’re house gets much higher than 72 you start sweating even though 72 is a pretty nice day outside.
Why does the indoor temperature seem to have such a greater affect on whether you feel hot or cold than the outdoor temp does?
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One of the main problem is outdoor temperature is measure in the shade on in sunlight. The heating you get from the sun is not included in the outdoor temperature. So you are lilkly not comparing equivalent situation.
Another diffrence is what clothes you typical have on, how much you move around and if there is wind. All of that have a effect on you body temperature.
Wind will move away are close to you that you have cooled down or heated up and replace it with air with the ambient temperature, Same air temperature in indoor and outdoors in shade can be qyute different because of how air close to you get replaced,
Depending on you heating system the exact temperature in the air will not nessecty be what you set the thermostat too. To cool or heat a room the air need to be colder or warmer then the target temperature. You might be in location that do not have the same temperature as the thermostat. Try put a themoment where you are.,
Air mostiure level alos has a effect on heat transfer especially in regards to sweating, you can cool down you body that way at 100% relative humidity.
Try go out when it is 60 indoors and outdoors in the same clothes and sit in the shade where there is no wind. That should be equivalent
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