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Yeah a wet cold is worse than a dry cold. 40 degrees in Los Angeles feels worse than 40 degrees in Phoenix. I noticed that in January in Universal Studios.
Ioannina is a humid city. The station that shows humidity data for the city is at the airport in a drier place than the city and that is why it shows lesser humidity than other stations near the city which is near the lake. Cold here is really uncomfortable. You feel it in your bones whatever clothing you wear. I usually wear a T-shirt, a woolen blouse, jeans, boots and a coat or a woolen jacket. The same in Serres. And I feel again that is cold though I wear this clothing. In clear nights and mornings the temperatures in winter are below freezing (around -3 to -5 C usually) with relative humidity >90% in both cities and it feels really cold. When the skies are grey the temperature range is 4 to 5 C lows and 7 to 9 C highs. The only days in winter that the humidity is low (especially in Ioannina) are days with clear skies and strong N and NE winds. But again you feel that it is really cold outside due to the wind.
Despite what a lot of people is saying in this thread, humidity makes it feel hotter, not colder. 25C in Buenos Aires and I could barely breath, 27C in Santiago, comfortable day, so, why would it be the opposite for cold weather?
Wet cold feels colder because of a simple reason, cloudiness. We can only assume that a sunny 4C day would feel warmer than a 4C cloudy day, however, a 2 different days, both sunny and 4C with the same wind speed, but different humidity levels, there would be no noticeable difference.
Last edited by Massiveshibe; 12-08-2020 at 02:44 PM..
Despite what a lot of people is saying in this thread, humidity makes it feel hotter, not colder. 25C in Buenos Aires and I could barely breath, 27C in Santiago, comfortable day, so, why would it be the opposite for cold weather?
Wet cold feels colder because of a simple reason, cloudiness. We can only assume that a sunny 4C day would feel warmer than a 4C cloudy day, however, a 2 different days, both sunny and 4C with the same wind speed, but different humidity levels, there would be no noticeable difference.
Have you experienced it though ? Both Santiago and Buenos Aires barely have winters.
Also the sunshine might be a factor, but what about the night time ?
Despite what a lot of people is saying in this thread, humidity makes it feel hotter, not colder. 25C in Buenos Aires and I could barely breath, 27C in Santiago, comfortable day, so, why would it be the opposite for cold weather?
Wet cold feels colder because of a simple reason, cloudiness. We can only assume that a sunny 4C day would feel warmer than a 4C cloudy day, however, a 2 different days, both sunny and 4C with the same wind speed, but different humidity levels, there would be no noticeable difference.
And because of the rain, since it wets you and you lose body heat.
But that is not a fair and equal comparison. Let's compare a 3C day sunny day with really high humidity to a 3C sunny day with really low humidity. You can make them both cloudy if you want (without rain). I'm pretty sure that the latter would feel colder to many. But I digress...
Have you experienced it though ? Both Santiago and Buenos Aires barely have winters.
Also the sunshine might be a factor, but what about the night time ?
Ive experienced 4C in Santiago and 4C in the east coast of South America, both during nighttime, and I felt equally chilly in both places, even thought the relative humidity of those places were different. I was also wearing the same clothes in both cities.
3C with 95% humidity feels no worse than 3C with 30% humidity to me. In fact I would say that the humid cold feels a bit more comfortable. I have lived in both Geneva and NY which get this kind of cold.
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