Why does air feel colder when it’s moving fast?
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My favourite place to start is to to visualise that there’s no such thing as cold… just an absence of heat.
Heat is essentially measured as how jiggly the molecules in your skin are.
Much like blowing on a hot cup of tea, the wind facilitates the transfer of jiggly heat energy from the tea, into the air.
When there is a near-constant flow of new molecules to transfer the energy to, your skin loses heat more quickly…
In a room with no wind, your skin would heat up the surrounding air and this would serve as somewhat of a temporary shield from further heat loss.
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