• Question: Why can we feel the wind when it blows on us?

    Asked by anon-252493 to Sheila on 30 Apr 2020.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 30 Apr 2020:

      We have tiny tiny hair on our skin that the wind pushes and we feel this.
      The temperature of the wind is another thing – we have temperature sensors all over our skin, and also as we sweat the wind picks up the moisture and cools us.
      If the wind is strong enough it may even be painful – which is another “channel” for our sensors.

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 28 May 2020:

      What Oleg said! 🙂 It is the pressure of the wind molecules on our skin, and the tiny hairs on our skin, that makes us able to feel the wind blow!

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