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And if you only ever used it for describing weather, that would be an argument to make. But you use it everywhere, I mean just search for the term “cooking temperature” on Google images and you’ll see a bunch of nonsense.
But even using it just for weather, this is still not a good argument, as the perspective of hot and cold is very very subjective, and changes constantly. To me, an outside temperature if 10C feels freezing cold in September, but it’s reasonably warm in January. Or an inside temperature of 24C will feel amazingly cold on a 42C July day, but super warm on a -10C December night.
I mean you could still do “Feels Like” with a humidity fudge factor in F.
0 hot? So what about when it’s -40?
that’s when the two scales collide…
-40FC…
‘fucking cold’
Can confirm this is accurate.
funnily, the same as -40 C
Yes, intentional.
I understand you’re being sassy but below zero you do start saying “no but seriously, how can it be this cold?” Zero is about the lower limit before temperature stops being distinguishable and just becomes cold
There is a BIG difference between 0F, -20F and -40F. And as someone that has worked in areas that has often seen -60F, -20F feels like spring in comparison.
It is funny how 40 in the fall sees most folks bundling up with everything they have, and 40 the spring is shorts and sandals weather.
I don’t stop wearing shorts until it’s about 0F out or the wind is insane. Not to like shovel the driveway or anything being out for extended periods, but going out shopping or whatever is fine. Today was 0 with a -20 windchill and my Costco run was done in shorts, a sweatshirt, and a baseball cap.
Spoken like somebody who doesn’t experience freezing degrees very often.
The feeling of cold weather is entirely subjective. A Brazilian from Bahia will wear a winter coat and feel cold at 20C, but somebody from northern Canada would be going out for a swim in their shorts.
Which is why any attempt at using “oh it means cold percentage” or “oh below zero it just feels the same” is extremely dumb and a easily refutable attempt at saving a bad scale.
I grew up in the Northeastern US. I lived in the Southeastern US for a few years. My first year there it was 65F in March and everyone was still in their winter coats with scarves and hats commenting that they couldn’t wait for spring and I was in a t shirt with sweat literally rolling down my arms and face and I remember saying “wait, this isn’t spring?”
Sweat rolling down your arms at 65 degrees?
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Yup. We were at an event and it was a hot weekend, mid 30’s C, sunny, so we were in shorts and staying in the shade. My sister, who had just come back from a tour in Afghanistan, was wearing a sweater and shivering.
Point was, doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, once it gets to -40 it’s “fucking cold” to literally everyone
So what?
0% hot = 100% cold
so
-40% hot = 140% cold ❄️
Sounds like girl math. 😜
If it gets hot this year I’m going to go off to my partner about how its almost 0% cold.
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
Humans shouldn’t exist in zones outside 0-100
I mean, he’s not wrong. Celsius is about how hot water is. As someone who has lived half my life on each continent and uses Celsius for everything, I do still think that Fahrenheit is a better unit to use for weather while Celsius is better for everything else. But using 2 units is dumb so Celsius it is.
Fahrenheit is about how hot water is, and how cold brine is, and how 180 is highly factorable. Celsius is about how hot water is and how 100 is nice in base 10.
@[email protected] nope reading this is what having a stroke feels like …
They are indeed very wrong. Their percentage is gauged for a very specific climate, and is entirely subjective. You may personally and subjectively think it suits you, but it is not objectively a better unit to use for weather in the slightest. It would make no sense where I live for example.
My face has more wat than a wat granny wat
With Fahrenheit, there are 180 units of degree measurement between the freezing and boiling point of water. With Celsius, there are only 100. For me this makes Fahrenheit preferable, as its units are smaller and allow for finer temperature measurement and adjustment.
You know you can break those units into smaller units right?
Also most thermometers are only accurate to about +/- 2 degrees F anyway.
Or essentially 1°C.
0.0501 °C
0,0501 °C
The life is a bitch
I know Americans are born with a fear of decimals. But that is not a phobia the rest of the world partakes in. With decimals there is an infinite amount of unit of measurement between freezing and boiling point of water, which according to your system makes celsius infinitely better than fahrenheit.
Sure. Next time my wife asks me how hot it is outside I’m going to tell her 25.3 degrees and she will be amazed and forever impressed. For sure…
Is reading this what having a stroke feels like?
and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot
We need a new scale where 0 is 0K and 100 is the temperature of the big bang.
May I suggest calling it the Morphius scale?
“The temperature will be 1 °M today”
“In the beginning it was 100 degrees Morphius”Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
I have to be that guy: it’s K, not °K.
ok
You’re supposed to get rid of the circle, not make it bigger!
Thank you for your service.
i feel like this was either made by a fahrenheit user, or a nothern canadian. 0°C isn’t “fairly cold”, it’s freezing! 10°C is “fairly cold”.
Ummm… doesn’t this description actually fit better with celsius? 0% hot is frozen. 100% hot is boiling. No?
When the weather is 100% hot outside how hot is it?
It means sauna is ready
That depends entirely on who you ask.
But is it ever boiling water hot outside?
But is it ever 100% hot outside? No matter how hot it feels, it can always get hotter.
It can’t really get much beyond 110 outside and if it does i don’t think you’d notice the difference much
Never. Which is why it’s never 100% hot. At most it’s maybe 40% hot.
That’s why Fahrenheit is good for outdoor temps only humans care about and Celsius is good for everything else
You mean it’s good for outdoor temps only Americans care about. Here in the rest of the world, we have very different weather to you people, so we need a wider scale.
America has some of the lowest and highest temps in the world so I’m not sure how that means anything
are you water?
Mostly, yes.
B… B… BAKA!
This scale presumes the non-existence of the state of “supa hot”.
SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT.
Don’t confuse it with wicked hot
but it’s not a rapper.
That fear is them realizing they are trapped talking to a clown who proudly is grinding 100 hours at work every week.
I like how they claimed Fahrenheit made sense by relating it to a scale between 0 and 100 because a grade divided into 100 pieces (centigrade) is a system that is easy to handle. If only there was a unit of measurement that was already like that.
No they’re relating average earth temperature/weather to a centigrade scale, instead of relating liquid water to one.
Average is one number, not a range. Do you mean standard deviation?
“Average earth temperature”? Lmao
It is not average Earth temperature though.
I might catch flak for this, but I understand Fahrenheit made a ton of sense of an illiterate bygone era (well, I guess coming back maybe)
The vast majority of people were uneducated. Decimals were a non-starter, maybe negatives were also difficult?
0-100 was very easy. Under 0? Don’t go outside if possible. Over 100? Don’t go outside if possible. >50/halfway? Time for a coat. Having the same scale from -15 to 40 might have been confusing and not centered for them?
Except what is cold/hot varies from person to person.
Water is more consistent.
37 isn’t really hot yet. It’s warm. It’s around 50 degrees when it starts feeling too hot to touch.
37 isn’t really hot yet.
Tell me how you feel when your body heats up just a bit, from 37 to 40. Sweating? Shivering? Hot and cold waves?
As always, it depends on the context and on the individual
You should also ask them how they feel when their body cools down ‘a bit’ to 32°C
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
I’m geniunly curious why you are getting down voted. The “propaganda” word choice is clearly part of the joke.
I mean, I wish we used C instead of F, but this take is still a whoosh.
I’m curious, why? I think metric makes sense in most regards but I like the granularity of F. The difference between 70F and 75F is pretty noticeable, but in C, it’s like what? 1 degree?
Because my partner uses C. The constant jump scares from temps is annoying 😀
Separate from that, I use temps for what to wear, so exactness is less important to me. In truth AQI and humidity are much more important metrics to me.
Plus:
- Equipment temps are always in C
- Using C is a gateway to metric use
- Devices built for C are just… better. Example: Any washing machine for C has the temperatures listed on the settings vs the ever so useful “warm” or “colors”
- Kettle boils when it hits 3 digits. More fun.
So, lots of ancillary reasons I guess, vs any one direct reason.
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?
Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32
You could still do that at -10% hot, so I don’t get your argument.
Or pull the trash cans to the curb!
no i can’t. i’m not risking garbage water getting on my slippers and freezing into them
