On a beautifully sunny, windless day last summer, I sat in my back garden and felt very warm indeed. The air temperature was 16 掳C, but there is no doubt that it felt more like a day when the thermometer read 25 掳C. Why the discrepancy?
Simon Silver, Hayes, Middlesex, UK
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