Why does wind feel cold? At the same temperature, a gust of wind can make you chilly. How does your body “feel” the cold wind?
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Your body is always emitting heat, and warming the air around it. Air is a good insulator, meaning that air doesn’t transmit heat very effectively. So once your body warms the layer of air right next to you, the air stays pretty warm, and you stop losing heat to it.
A gust of wind pushes that warm air away, and replaces it with cool air. So you lose more heat to warm up the new air. As the wind keeps blowing, you never get a chance to create that warm insulating layer of air around you, and so it feels colder.
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