Body Temperature

[keithlbw]

The temperature of the human body is on average 98.6F (37C). Why during hot weather when the temperature does not get this high do we feel uncomfortable. Surely we should only feel hot and sweaty when the temperature goes above our own body temperature.

[baileys]

can't make head or tail of that keithlbw .where you been? the north pole? lol

[wolf63]

I understand your question, but don't know the answer

[laurence2]

Your body/mind starts switching to uncomfortable mode/ fatigue/ tiredness/ stressful when the Air temperature reaches 75F according to medical experts

Thats why the recommended workplace temperature during hot weather is recommended to be between 64 -73F tho certain jobs like welders/ furnace workers this would not apply

[Lynn_M]

Body temperature is actually 98.4. On old fashioned hospital glass thermometers, the arrow points exactly to the 98.4 mark.

[Catso]

I could be because your body generates its own heat, and it has to be regulated so that the core stays at 98.4. This means getting rid of heat to the surroundings. As ambient temperature gets closer to 98.4, this gets increasingly difficult. So more drastic measures, such as sweating buckets, have to be used.

If air temperature did reach 98.4, you'd bit a bit worse off than 'uncomfortable'.

The body does seem to adapt to the ambient temperature after a while EG you go on hols to Greece for a fortnight, you'll feel cold when you come back to England. It seems a lot worse, and more noticeable, when the temperature suddenly gets a lot hotter than normal, like it has.

(Is this what your question was about?)

[jake-the-peg]

Your body regulates itself to 37C

All the biological processes in your body generate heat.

If that heat is less than the heat you are loosing then your body will start to cool and you'll shiver to start to generate more heat and get back to 37C

If the heat you produce is more than you are loosing to the outside world the your body will try to loose heat faster by sweating otherwise your body would start to overheat