Why do we feel cold inside the house more than outside?

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2023/01/05

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - Most of us notice when returning home after spending time outside, that the atmosphere in the house is cooler than outside, which contradicts the main goal of the house, which is to provide maximum comfort for humans, so what is the reason for this strange feeling of cold inside homes and buildings ?!

 

In fact, there are several answers to this question, but we must first understand that our feeling of cold or warmth in a place depends on our bodies losing and gaining heat, and this heat transfer process occurs in three ways:

 

The amount of heat your body loses or gains is affected by the difference in temperature between the body and the surrounding environment, so we wear winter clothes in cold weather, because it preserves our body heat and reduces the loss of that heat through radiation, and also reduces the effect of convection by keeping the movement of cold air away from Our bodies, greatly inhibit conduction.

 

Reasons related to the house itself

Your house or any building has a similar response to heat and cold. In the summer when the exterior walls get warm, heat is transferred to the interior of the house. In the winter the walls cool and heat is transferred from the inside of the house to the outside .

 

After the cold weather continues for several days, the external walls continue to lose heat, so the contrast in temperature increases between the external and internal surfaces, which leads to a decrease in the temperature in the internal face of the wall, so the house cools down.

 

in summer. The difference in temperature between the inner and outer surface of the house is not as great as it is in cold weather in winter, so we do not notice a large temperature difference between the house and the outside.

 

Also read: The most common types of home heating methods

 

Personnel reasons

There are also reasons related to our bodies and our behavior indoors. We usually do less physical activity indoors than outside, so your body generates less heat. Indoor air is also drier in winter, so sweat evaporates faster, skin cools and we feel colder more.

 

Nature reasons

We do not forget the effect of the presence of solar radiation outside, which provides us with warmth and heats the objects on which it falls, and thus heats the air near it.

 

Solutions to increase the feeling of warmth inside the home

 

Also read: 10 tips to keep your body warm in the winter

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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