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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If those Americans could read they'd be very upset.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd take offense if I could; but you're right... I think... idk, I can't think. I'm not upset, you're upset!

What's an up set?

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I just use

30°C is hot, 20°C is nice 10°C is cold, 0°C is ice.

Obviously that won't apply everywhere, but in milder climates it works pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

And 40°C is the melting point of the human brain.

Which goes some way towards explaining some of the decisions happening in Florida, Texas and Arizona during their ridiculously hot summers..

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

and 30C° is a typo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's the best way to think about it because if you're always doing the calculation in your head you still always think in Fahrenheit first. Just get the feeling for Celcius instead of trying to shoehorn a worse system in (as a user of said worse system myself).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

All those are still shorts weather.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:

  • 10c = 50f
  • 30c = 86f

Edit: I'd like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I'm a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

F = C * 1.8 + 32

Just want to leave this here

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

its true, legs are immune to cold. shorts and a jacket is a reasonable outfit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

0C? Fellow Minnesotan here and I've definitely seen plent of people wearing shorts at temps below -5C. But I'm also in a college town so that may change things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Paraphrasing an old meme:

Fahrenheit - how hot humans feel
Celsius - how hot water feels
Kelvin - how hot atoms feel

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

C° or °C bud?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Jokes on you. I'm an american who works with scientific equipment so I mainly work in Celsius. Also live in Minnesota so we get the best of both worlds. Last winter hit almost -30C at times meanwhile tomorrow has a high of 39C with almost 70% humidity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I was going to make the joke that Minnesotan kids definitely know what -40°C is.

I moved up here from Florida to get out of this kind of heat and humidity. Thanks Minnesota. This is miserable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Minnesota is just lower Manitoba, you get the same insane 80c temperature variance

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans know about °C, but what the hell is C°?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's °C, but the temperature increases exponentially with every higher number

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most kids don't get degrees.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I certainly know what degrees Celsius are, but I have no idea what Celsius degrees are supposed to be.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Fuck it, it's 8 o'clock and 28°C with 60% already. We are not used to this shit here.

https://www.meteoblue.com/en/blog/article/show/40238_Heat+wave+in+Europe

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Here's a rough C° primer for Americans

0° or below, fucking cold

1° - 10° cold

11° - 20° cool

21° - 30° warm

31° - 40° hot

41° or above - Jesus Christ I'm on fire!

As for Fahrenheit for the rest of the world, on a scale from 0 to 100, how hot is it? Assume anything below zero is really fucking cold, and anything above 100 is really fucking hot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

-10° - -1° very cold

0° Water freezes

1° - 5° Cold

6° - 10° cool

11° - 16° warm

17° - 25° hot

26° - 30 very hot

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yup. Where I live we have seen down to -20F (during that time texas almost lost their power grid) and up to 115F.

Its currently 110F. Aka, hot.

Or, -28c to 46C. Currently 43C. And 40% humidity. Feels horrible.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I prefer free health care units

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if they stopped, but American kids at least used to be taught both Celsius and Fahrenheit. At least in some parts anyway. I was taught both as a kid, with my school largely banning the use of Fahrenheit by staff on campus even, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why does the US live rent free in so many European's heads all the time?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I didn't know Canada and Australia were in Europe

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shorts in 10C is standard practice for me. Really not that cold for us in the NorthWest. Now if we're talking Southern Californians 10C is heavy winter jacket weather.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

American here. Always knew C temps.

10 c cool 20 c perfect 30 c ok I need shade and a body of water 40 c wtf 50 c I’m dead

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-5C your pee freezes when it hits the ground -25C you pee freezes internally -35C you pack the floofier sleeping bag for camping

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cold 0 is ice

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's ignore the fact that celsius is taught in American schools because "hAha AMeRiCa bAd beCauSe nO MeTric."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Then why don't you USE IT?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It’s taught but not really for weather. So while I know the boiling and freezing points of various substances in Celsius, I don’t have instant recognition when I hear a Celsius temperature, I have to convert it in my head.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Double Celsius and add 30. It'll get you close enough for environment temps.

10*2 is 20, plus 30 = 50.

(10°C × 9/5) + 32 = 50°F

30 doubled is 60, plus 30 is 90.

(30°C × 9/5) + 32 = 86°F

10°C is mild af. Who tf doesn't wear shorts when it's 50F?

If you want to sound more metal, tell people how cold it is in celsius. Was it kinda cold or was it in the negatives?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I find it easier to just remember the approximate table.

0C = 30F

10C = 50F

20C = 70F

30C = 90F

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Me, an American, laughs in PC temperatures always being in C

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Just admit it, Celsius is garbage, use Kelvin cowards. Also this: Temperature scales

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