Rain

Yes. Let me rain on your parade. As long as your parade is nude.

Why?

Because I wonder about something.

Rain can be great if it's warm and you're naked outside. Unfortunately, rain usually isn't warm, and even worse, we're not outside naked often - except for the lucky 12,937 who live in naturist communities. (If you think that number is wrong, do report the correct one with evidence of counting. I just made this number up.)

So why this question?

Rain is mostly water, and water will cool down a body faster than air (about 20 to 25 times faster, if I remember my scuba diving courses correctly).

We're not all scuba divers. We walk outside in the rain at times. My puzzle for the day is:

Do you get cold faster when you wear clothes in the rain, or when you're naked?

I bet that clothes will keep you dry/warm a bit longer than your bare skin, but once the clothes get soaked, this is - I think - a completely different picture.

Wet clothes lay on a person as a watery slab. It feels icky, and I think it will feel colder because there is much more water accumulated on each part of the skin than rain drops would do. Not counting monsoons or sheet rain showers, when no sane person should want to be outside.

Wet clothes are also very heavy because of that, as they get saturated with rain (water), and so extracting heat from a body much faster.

I wonder if anyone has any insights about this. This question has been bugging for a while already...