For example if you are sitting in a car with the windows down and the air outside is hot. Yet when you start moving the air feels much colder.
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Your skin feels when it loses heat. When the air is cooler than your body temperature, your skin heats up the air around you a bit, and you feel slightly cooled. But now that air is warmer. If it moves on by you it gets replaced by air that hasn’t been skin-warmed, and now your skin warms up the new air, losing more heat.
Also, air doesn’t just absorb heat directly from your skin, it also dries your sweat. When it does that, it gains moisture that used to be on your skin, and that moisture also takes heat along with it. So even if the air isn’t cooler than your body temperature, it can still take heat away from your skin. Again the same concept applies: wind means new air is always coming in to take a new bit of heat from your skin.
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