Comparison of the Fahrenheit and Celsius/Centigrade scales to determine which one is better. Because the US is the only large country using the Fahrenheit sc...
Remind me again; what exactly is Fahrenheit based on?
Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts.
Oh right, it’s based on freezing and boiling points, and everything else about it is just wildly arbitrary and unnecessarily complicated.
It is better scale for human habitation. No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather. That is stupid. Then you use a decimal for finer scale. Just use 0 to 100.
Citation needed, since the rest of the world seems to understand how Celsius feels just fine.
Like any learned system, it makes perfect sense to me that 25°C is pretty nice and 0°C is pretty chilly, and anytime it’s below 0°C the precipitation is different. Pretty straightforward.
However, when I hear that its a nice 72°F day in the US, that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Nor does 32°F have any relationship with sanity or scale when that’s randomly the freezing point.
No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather.
That’s not how anyone has every thought about the weather, using any system.
Doesn’t make sense to use a measure based on boiling water for weather.
Remind me again; what exactly is Fahrenheit based on?
Oh right, it’s based on freezing and boiling points, and everything else about it is just wildly arbitrary and unnecessarily complicated.
It is better scale for human habitation. No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather. That is stupid. Then you use a decimal for finer scale. Just use 0 to 100.
Citation needed, since the rest of the world seems to understand how Celsius feels just fine.
Like any learned system, it makes perfect sense to me that 25°C is pretty nice and 0°C is pretty chilly, and anytime it’s below 0°C the precipitation is different. Pretty straightforward.
However, when I hear that its a nice 72°F day in the US, that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Nor does 32°F have any relationship with sanity or scale when that’s randomly the freezing point.
That’s not how anyone has every thought about the weather, using any system.
That’s what we’re doing already
Don’t forget the freezing point of water which is most relevant for weather.