Does anyone know why 60 degrees in winter always feels colder than summer?
Answer:
more humidity in the air in the summer. it's this that blocks the evaporaiton of sweat, making you feel a lot hotter.
It's never 60 in winter here.
are you sure that 60 doesnt feel warmer in the winter than in the summer? Ive noticed that and I think 60 feels warmer in the winter because its normally so much colder than that, while in the summer its so much warmer than 60 degrees. Your body gets more used to whichever temperature range it experiences more often.
On those rare days when its 60 in winter, I go outside and play in just a t shirt. If that happens in summer, I curse the gods and put on pants and my favorite fleece shirt! Imagine that!
I agree that it is partially psychological, and I agree with the answerer who says if it is 60 in the winter go out in light clothing, whereas 60 in the summer is very chilly...need sweaters or even jackets, which have to be shucked and hopefully not lost later in the day. As a kid I was good at losing jackets about 9:30AM or so in the summer!
But in the summer the humidity is up here, which gives an effective increase in the heat index, and our winters tend to be low in humidity and so low in heat index. The two effects offset to an extent, so your subjective perception can lean one way or the other.
Also depends on how warm you keep your domicile or office. What you are acclimated to before you go out into the 60 degree temperature; again a subjective interpretation of a physiological contrast.
And your activity level before you make the change in external temperature; if you have been exercising or sleeping. Again a subjective response to the physical temperature change.
Right now, if I were to go into 60-degree chill I would feel very cool, since I am coming from 100+ temperatures. In 6 months, it will be balmy since I will be coming from adapting to -10 degree temperatures!! Snow will be melting, birds singing, flowers blooming...nice!!
Yea for 60 degrees...almost be nice year around, but then I would miss the 100 degree temps where you can hear the corn growing, and the -30's and -40's where we can gloat over the folks who wonder how life can survive below 0!!
When I visit my friend in Singapore, where the heat indices are usually over 110, I drip rivulets of sweat from fan to fan!. My friend is comfortable. When my friend visits back, my friend wears a light jacket in our chilly 85 degree summers, and simply cannot conceive of survival when it is a paltry 0 out!. And I am quite comfortable in a light shirt.
But wait 'til Al Gore finishes with the climate!! Everything will be different. Politically correct, unchangingly politically correct. Everywhere politically correct.
If it were true, I'd say it was because the ground is colder in the winter, even though the air temp is 60 degrees...takes the ground a heck of a lot longer to warm up than the air. Do I sound like Bush? hahaha.
Wind chill factor?
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