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?
In: Biology
Humidity, wind and solar radiation can greatly influence your perception of the temperature. For instance I used to like reading down by the river where I live and found if I was sitting in the sun outside anything over 45 degrees would be ok without a jacket. But without the sun and a little wind and I’d want a jacket at 60 degrees. Obviously inside you never have the sun or wind and humidity varies significantly less than outside so that controlled environment can feel much different than outside where all these factors are constantly changing.
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