– Why do small temperature changes feel so drastic indoors compared to outdoors?
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When your home thermostat calls for cooling at, say 72 degrees F, your air conditioning unit is producing air that is 35 to 45 degrees F. You may feel that cold air circulating as it mixes with the air in the room to keep the room at your desired temperature. This is why some people run their system fan constantly, to keep the air moving and mixing.
Similarly, when heating a room to 72 degrees F, your forced air furnace is producing air at anywhere from 110 degrees F to 170 degrees F and sending it into your room.
Outdoors, the air heats and cools more or less uniformly in a given area.
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