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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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.