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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This came up a week ago. I made a chart:

Temps easily relatable conditions
<0 throw boiling water up in the air to make it snow
0-10 dangerous freezing cold
10-20 bitter freezing cold
20-30 freezing cold
30-40 coat cold
50-60 jacket cool
60-70 cool
70-80 pleasant
80-90 warm
90-100 hot
100-110 too damn hot for my fat ass/fry an egg outside

One of the conclusions on why I like Fahrenheit over Celsius for weather is it's ironically the most base 10 like for a non-SI scale. A phrase like "it's going to be in the 70s today" has so much information in it. Usually with no weather changes like a front coming in, you'll know that during the day it'll be pleasant. At night the temperature range will drop by around 10 degrees and you'll know you'll likely need a light jacket or at least long sleeves to stay comfortable.

If metric wanted to adopt a scale with more graduations that could be easily grouped to 10s, that'd be great. I don't know why 0-100 was arbitrarily chosen to be the scale for water instead of 0-1000.

For temp measurements outside of weather I really do prefer Celsius though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

As someone who grew up in the tropics and now lives somewhere colder, I went through the first three table entries thinking that this was Celsius and felt understood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ok but having not grown up with F I feel the same way about -20 to 40 °C, which you can divide into 5° bands with almost identical names.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

but like we do the exact same thing with celsius, if you say "it's gonna be about 15°C today then i know what to wear.

people don't stand there doing maths to figure out what to wear, they intuitively learn what clothes go with what number.