If the average human temperature is about 98 degrees...?

Question

Then why do we feel hot when it is 98 degrees outside?

Answer 1

internal vs. external...we are a bag of blood (basically) so our heat stays contained (except via sweat, panting, etc.)...but our skin is exposed and not a part of that internal system

Answer 2

Our body is made up of 80% water, and requires that are internal temp be about 98 degrees. When it is98 degrees outside, it is more difficult for out bodies to get rid of extra heat (produced from the bodies regular metabolism) because the air is the same temperature so radiation, convection, and conduction (normal ways the body loses heat) do not occur as easily.

Answer 3

The inside of our body is 98.6 degrees, on average. Our skin protects our insides, trying to maintain the internal temperature. Our bodies have adapted to have a certain environmental temperature, right around 70 degrees. Skin needs to be able to cool off the internal temperature if it gets too hot. It does this by sweating. Sweat is evaporated off of our bodies, taking heat with it(this is called latent heat). In humid areas, the sweat cannot be evaporated, so we feel hotter.

Answer 4

Its about internal and expernal, when we respirate our body releases energy which passes to our whole body but not skin and external organs from birth. so, the internal organs are experienced to it. where as skin is not experiennce so we feel so hot.

Proof:- observe a hot food material, u can have hot food easily coz ur tounge is habituated where as u can handle the food of same temperature.

Well , a good question

Answer 5

Your skin temperature varies quite a bit, so indeed, that's one aspect, but obviously, 98º at 0% relative humidity feels much better that 98º at 95% relative humidity.

That's because we are exothermic, i.e., we generate heat that must be removed or we die. Our resting metabolism generates about 80W continuously. Newton's cooling law says that heat is removed faster with a larger temperature difference. So at 98º external temperature, the temperature difference is nearly zero, which is why we need to fan ourselves to keep cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_cooling#Newton.27s_law_of_cooling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection

Answer 6

The average human temp is about 98.6 and our average
skin temp is in the low 70's so what we are feeling as heat
is based on our skin temp what is exposed to the outside temp.