but like we do the exact same thing with celsius, if you say "it’s gonna be about 15°C today then i know what to wear.
people don’t stand there doing maths to figure out what to wear, they intuitively learn what clothes go with what number.
Comment on temperature
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoThis came up a week ago. I made a chart:
| Temps | easily relatable conditions |
|---|---|
| <0 | throw boiling water up in the air to make it snow |
| 0-10 | dangerous freezing cold |
| 10-20 | bitter freezing cold |
| 20-30 | freezing cold |
| 30-40 | coat cold |
| 50-60 | jacket cool |
| 60-70 | cool |
| 70-80 | pleasant |
| 80-90 | warm |
| 90-100 | hot |
| 100-110 | too damn hot for my fat ass/fry an egg outside |
One of the conclusions on why I like Fahrenheit over Celsius for weather is it’s ironically the most base 10 like for a non-SI scale. A phrase like “it’s going to be in the 70s today” has so much information in it. Usually with no weather changes like a front coming in, you’ll know that during the day it’ll be pleasant. At night the temperature range will drop by around 10 degrees and you’ll know you’ll likely need a light jacket or at least long sleeves to stay comfortable.
If metric wanted to adopt a scale with more graduations that could be easily grouped to 10s, that’d be great. I don’t know why 0-100 was arbitrarily chosen to be the scale for water instead of 0-1000.
For temp measurements outside of weather I really do prefer Celsius though.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Ok but having not grown up with F I feel the same way about -20 to 40 °C, which you can divide into 5° bands with almost identical names.
Sal@mander.xyz 9 months ago
As someone who grew up in the tropics and now lives somewhere colder, I went through the first three table entries thinking that this was Celsius and felt understood.