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Subject: Relationship between humidity and body feelings of cold and warmth

Date: Wed Mar 10 11:38:54 1999
Posted by Robert M. Wendlinger
Grade level: School: Not for many years--I'm 76
City: Oakland State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Other
ID: 921087534.Ot
Message:

I found a discussion of the relationship between humidity, a 
cold body and warm body during a Web source. I hope that you will 
help me, even though I am long out of college. We live in 
Oakland, CA and have just returned from a four-day trip to 
Cleveland: very cold, snow, etc. Dressing properly, I felt more 
comfortable outside in Cleveland at 20 agrees or so than I do in 
Oakland, where we've had a cold winter. I've always assumed that 
I'm negatively affected by a combination of cold and higher 
humidity--which I associate with dampness, cold extremities, etc. 
But I see from the weather reports that Oakland has LOWER 
humidity than Cleveland. Can anyone help me understand what might 
be going on?


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