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• pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fixed points (for 0 and 100) are much more logical though and can be used to accurately recreate the scale anywhere (well… it’ll be slightly off on higher altitude since boiling temperature changes but it’s still not far off).

  0°C = water freezes (= it’s snowing)

  100°C = water boils

  meanwhile:

  0°F = the coldest night Mr Fahrenheit experienced, thinking it couldn’t get any colder than that

  100°F = Mr Fahrenheit’s own body temperature (he had a slight fever apparently)

  How would you recreate that??

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The temperature of water boiling is not a useful metric when it comes to the weather, as it’s extremely far outside of where humans can live. Science uses Celcius standard, and that seems to work fine, but I see no reason why we should use it for the weather.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The temperature of ice melting, on the other hand, is hugely important for weather. 0 point is placed at a very important spot as far as weather observations go.

      Can’t say that of Fahrenheit.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We’ll just keep things as they are becuase it seems to be working fine.

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    • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think we can agree that the freezing point is super important when it comes to the weather.

      So where would you place the second mark (you have to define two spots) so it “makes sense for the weather” (I don’t see how it makes less sense for the weather than Fahrenheit, at least Celsius tells you if it’ll snow or not while Fahrenheit tells you nothing) while still making sure that it can easily be recreated?

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am not water.

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