| ▲ | DanielVZ 16 hours ago |
| Fahrenheit is easy if you just forget trying to translate it to Celsius and just equate it to roughly: - 0 = freezing - 50 = mild - 100 = Very hot (not burning just very hot) |
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| ▲ | stephen_g 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeah but Fahrenheit still feels super alien and unintuitive if you haven’t used it much. I have like three or four approximate values that I think I know what they feel like, but most of the time I really have to stop and think. |
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| ▲ | anton-c 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | For casual human use I would say Fahrenheit is one of the more easily defended imperial units since it has more resolution. In reality hearing its 80 outside where I live could mean beautiful day or sweltering mugginess so it's never been a great indicator for me regardless of unit. Or when people adjust a thermostat by like 2 degrees. If you changed it and didn't tell me idk if I would even perceive it. Temperature is weird. | | |
| ▲ | Chico75 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The resolution part doesn't really hold for me, celsius can have decimals to have as much precision as you need but for weather purpose, half degree precision is usually more than enough. | |
| ▲ | igouy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "… the US National Weather Service (NWS) uses the Celsius scale internally and when communicating with other scientific agencies, but converts temperatures to Fahrenheit when releasing data to the general public." Kind-of funny; kind-of sad. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... | | |
| ▲ | jbaber 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | What's sad about scientists reporting in units practical for their audience? Should the label on a cookie say 836,800 J? |
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| ▲ | eCa 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We Celsius users use decimals if we need higher resolution. | | |
| ▲ | anton-c 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's fair. When I put "I would say" followed by "in reality" it means I don't fully support it. The previous comment said they don't find F that useful since they aren't familiar. I am, and I dont find it that useful for predicting how it actually feels outside. Celsius doesn't change much for me in that situation. |
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| ▲ | igouy 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... |
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| ▲ | 0_____0 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you go for a run at 0C with a T-shirt you'll probably be OK. Gloves and ear coverings would be nice. If you go for a run at 0F in a T-shirt, you won't be running for very long. That's like -18C. |
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| ▲ | brudgers 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 0 = freezing “Frigid” would perhaps be less confusing “Freezing.” |
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| ▲ | toss1 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | ...except 0°C is literally originally defined as the freezing point of water? "Freezing" seems more on-point to me... | | |
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| ▲ | filleduchaos 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The temperatures given in that comment are very obviously in Fahrenheit...? | | |
| ▲ | toss1 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | oh, OOPS, I didn't look at the GP In that case, I stand corrected, and 0°F should definitely be "Frigid" nto "Freezing" (thx for the alert) |
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