2007-08-24 08:52:14 · 10 answers · asked by Dirk Wellington-Catt 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
two reasons:
1. Your body is usually warmer than the air around. When air is still, your body heats up the air around it. When air is moving your body can't do that, so you lose heat faster to the air, and feel cooler.
2. You lose more heat due to evaporation of your sweat when the air is moving. This makes you cooler.
2007-08-24 09:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by zim_8 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
For two reasons: One, as has been stated in several of the other answers, is the cooling effect of your sweat evaporating. The other reason is that you are constantly producing heat with the metabolism of your body and even if you are not sweating, wind blowing over your skin will blow the heat you produce away from your skin replacing it with cooler air thus making it feel cooler. This doesn't work very well, however, when it's over 99 degrees as even the wind will be as warm as your skin.
2007-08-25 16:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by kcpaull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When wind blows...
{{ is there such a thing as still wind??... just a thought }}
.. it takes some moisture from the surface of your skin, causing the water to evaporate and take heat from your body. Therefore, you feel colder.
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2007-08-24 09:03:48 · answer #3 · answered by x--Z--x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you on about the wind chill factor. For every mile per hour the wind blows the temperature feels 1 degree cooler.
2007-08-24 09:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by john m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-10 17:56:34 · answer #5 · answered by christopher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wind speeds evaporation of perspiration. When water evaporates, it cools., taking heat with the water vapor.
2007-08-24 09:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is why refrigerators work.
The moisture on your skin evaporates and takes a bit of heat from your skin in the process.
PS it is called "Latent Heat"
2007-08-24 09:00:53 · answer #7 · answered by Ron S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its because when the wind blows across your skin your sweat evapourates.....evapouration causes cooling...!!!?
2007-08-25 09:08:50 · answer #8 · answered by Roy S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the same why you get hypothermia in the water, it wicks the heat away from your body and your body cannot get heat to that region quick enough....
2007-08-25 02:29:56 · answer #9 · answered by Niall S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it evaporates the humidity of your body
2007-08-24 20:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by ysaremian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋