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Why does when you first step out of the shower you feel cold but as you are dry you feel warmer even though the room temperature does not change?
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Evaporative cooling. As the water evaporates from your body it takes with it a good deal of energy (heat) as the latent heat of vaporisation
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Why do you feel cool after bath explain?
This is because your shower is usually hot. The water temperature of the shower is most likely higher or warmer than the outside temperature. Therefore your skin picks up the temperature difference between the shower and the outside temp. and then the skin picks up signals which links to your brain to tell you that it is colder on the outside. hope this helps!!!
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In the troposphere it will get colder, uet in the stratosphere it should get warmer.
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Fish are cold-blooded so their body heat change with the temperature of the water.
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The closer the layer is at the Earth's core, the warmer it gets.
When you step out a shower in a warm bathroom why do you shiver?
First, it's unlikely that the bathroom is warmer than the shower. Even if it was, the hot water flowing in the shower can provide a lot of heat to your skin. The water can be quite a bit warmer than the surrounding air, and the heat transfer capacity of a thin film of flowing water is very high. Once you turn the water off and step out of the shower there is strong evaporative cooling of the water on your skin. It's trying to come to equilibrium with its new surroundings, which is almost certainly much lower than a comfortable skin temperature. The temperature approached is the wet bulb temperature, which is somewhere between the dry bulb and the dew point.
Do higher wind speeds increase air temperature?
They can bring warmer air, but typically they don't change it, and it feels colder.
