I never understood why temperature can sometimes feel different in different context. Thanks for educating me!
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Your perception of coldness or warmth is how fast something external is able to drain or elevate your body heat.
Humid air can carry more heat away or to you. If it’s windy it always feels colder then not windy because the air you exchanged heat with is instantly replaced.
The same effect happens when you step out of the shower. The floor mat feels warm because it basically is unable to conduct heat away or to you. The tiles on the other hand are very good in conducting your body heat away so they feel cold. But the the floor mat and the tiles are at the same temperature. (They are also at the same temperature when you have floor heating but it feels the other way around because now the floor is hotter then your body temperature.)
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