Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Why do you feel warm when you wear gloves in cold weather? Will gloves get hot?

Why do you feel warm when you wear gloves in cold weather? Will gloves get hot?

Simply put, gloves do not give off heat, and have good moisturizing performance, which makes people feel warm.

More scientifically, it is because the heat transfer coefficient of gloves is smaller than that of air. We eat and drink water every day, get energy from food, and generate energy through breathing for us to walk, run or play computer. The breathing mentioned here is not only the breathing of our nose and mouth, but also the breathing of living cells in the body. Speaking of energy, people's most direct feeling of energy is heat. Yes, we have been generating heat. Because we are generating heat, our body temperature is always normal. First of all, we rely on the self-regulation of the body. Second, we constantly radiate heat to the surroundings. Mom touches your face, and you feel warm, because her hands are radiating heat to your face. Knowing this explains the problem of gloves. When the weather is cold in winter, the heat emitted by hands is quickly absorbed by the surrounding air (because air has high heat transfer coefficient and fast heat transfer), so hands feel cold in the air. If you wear gloves, because the heat transfer coefficient of gloves is very low, it is difficult to block the heat, and it is always covered inside the gloves, so the gloves feel very warm inside. If your gloves are strong enough to block heat, your hands will sweat if you wear them for a long time.

So the gloves won't get hot. What you feel is actually your own heat.