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pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We’ll just keep things as they are becuase it seems to be working fine.
    
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    Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Fine except for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
    
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    pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.
    
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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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