This is due to the fact that there is little food (flying insects) for them to eat. If they stayed awake in a warm home, without hibernating, then they would starve. We can begin the bat exclusion process during the winter months.
Mean free path of molecules in a gas. The molecules in a gas are assumed to be in continuous random motion making collisions with each other and with the walls of the container. The mean distance that the molecules travel between one collision and the next is called the mean free path of the molecules.
It's one of the givens of kinetic molecular theory. It explains why hydrogen gas diffuses faster than carbon dioxide. Thus there is a greater probability that a lighter molecule like hydrogen will be able to cross a given transient empty space faster than a heavier one before the gap, so to speak, closes up.