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There are done good answers here. My guess is humidity. Where I live (where winter means negative C temperatures for 4.5 months) our houses get very dry in the winter with the furnace going. Humid air holds heat energy in the water in the air. Dry air holds less heat energy. Evaporative cooling occurs more readily when air is dry. So the air temperature could be the same but you would feel evaporative cooling as moisture leaves your skin and evaporates into the dry air, taking heat energy from your body and putting it into the air. I could be way out to lunch but that is my theory based off what I know.
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