Why is it that in summer if my home is a certain temp it feels warm, but the same temp in winter feels cold?
Question:This seems to be the case even when the humidity is the low.
Answers:
There are two ways to transfer heat, although engineers claim there is a third, I disagree. The two ways are conduction and radiation. In conduction, heat is transferred to things you are in contact with, mainly furniture and the air. This is what a thermostat measures, mainly the air temp because the thermostat is placed on an inside wall. It is the radiation form of heat transfer that varies with the season. Radiation is always occurring between two objects that are above absolute zero as all things on earth are. Each object constantly emits heats and absorbs heat from surroundings such as walls. If the wall is hot compared to you, you send it some heat but it sends you more so you heat up. If the wall is cold, you send it heat and it sends you less so you are heating the wall up. Thus, in the summer, while the temp in the room is the same, the hot walls make you hotter, in Winter, the cold walls make you colder.
In the summer you come in to 75 and your body is hot and the air around you is cool so the heat from your body and the surrounding air may level out at 80 so it seems hot. Same for the winter only in reverse.
It could be that your getting a Draft of cold air in the winter that would make you feel cold and in the summer you are getting radiant heat from the windows that would make it feel warm.
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