Celsius in a lab (or in cooking) is perfectly fine.

But as a way to describe daily weather (and thermostats) it's woefully inadequate.

The sum total of "comfortable" temperatures in celsius has to be squeezed between maybe 17 to 24 - why? you never ever use anything above 40 except when talking about people that died from a heatwave.

It's based on the freezing and boiling point of water _at sea level_ which almost none of us ever encounter (whether it's sea level, or the boiling point of water).

Fahrenheit is a much more intuitive scale (again... to describe daily weather or human temperature) - 0 - 100 better models the temperatures we experience daily, and you can intuitively separate into 10s, the way you "feel"

For example...

100s - honey, please, let's move to a cooler place.

90s - uncomfortably hot

80s - hot in the sun, not too bad at night

70s - you'd probably want a light sweater at night

60s - light sweater all the time

50s - medium sweater

40s - sweater, maybe a coat

30s - coat

20s - sweater and coat

10s - why am i living in this region?

0s - honey, please, let's move to a warmer place.

The point is that there's enough resolution to describe the actual human experience with temperature.

For everything else, celsius is perfectly adequate, totally agree.

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simonask 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

FYI, none of this has ever made any sense at all to somebody who didn’t grow up with Fahrenheit. Numbers don’t need to go roughly between 40 and 100, and then occasionally 212 and 450.

The difference between 20 C and 20.5 C is not generally noticeable. The difference between 20 and 25 really is.

You’ll just have to face the fact that you feel comfortable with a really weird system that nobody else can see the point of, but it’s what you’re comfortable with. That’s OK, you’re allowed.

	▲	hn993302 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's common here to say something like "this week it's in the 70s." In places that use Celsius, "in the 20s" must be too broad, so do they instead say some range like "it's 20-25"?

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hn993302 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They also accidentally got MPH right for cars. Fastest highway is like 85. 100 is the fastest a normal car can go and also a reasonable point to arrest the driver.

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LtWorf an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> The sum total of "comfortable" temperatures in celsius has to be squeezed between maybe 17 to 24

30° is perfectly comfortable for me.