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[deleted] t1_iyd82l3 wrote

Water is roughly 20x more thermally conductive than air, so it takes heat away much faster. Air also takes heat away from your body, but your body can make the heat back faster than the air can take it away.

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Way2Foxy t1_iydbbgs wrote

To add on to your answer, we don't feel temperature, we just feel the heat transfer rate. That's one of the reasons we have a "feels like" temperature in our weather forecasts.

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