Comment on Everyday, as an American

• IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, mostly. You still need to use Kelvin so you don’t get negative numbers for sciencing, but using them simultaneously for both day-to-day and science is nowhere near as common. Most people just want to know what to wear, and using Celsius loses a lot of the fidelity that Fahrenheit gives. This is after I spent 2 years only looking up the weather in Celsius so that I could get a feel for each degree of difference, and ended up just getting frustrated at how the same degree temperature in Celsius could feel drastically different to me when it’s actually a 2-3 degree difference in Fahrenheit.

  Also, FWIW, British people love to use Fahrenheit when it’s over 100 degrees because it ‘feels hotter’ to say that than ‘37’, but they also love using Celsius when it’s below freezing, as it ‘feels colder’ to say negative numbers instead of numbers in their teens or twenties. It’s more psychology than anything, but Fahrenheit still definitely has its practical uses, and I’m not ditching it anytime soon.

  We can ditch feet/yards/miles though. Meters definitely make more sense in that regard.

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  • hswolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your point about Kelvin true, you still need to do some converting, but as I said, the day to day use ultimately depends if you were raised using either.

    Using me as an example, I completely understand that 10~15C outside is freezing, 22~27 is okay, 30~36 is hot and 40+ is scalding.

    You could make this same point about fahrenheit and both are true, I have no ideia what 100F feels like, or 10 or 40 or 160.

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    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      10-15 Celsius literally isn’t “freezing” though?

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      • hswolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t get outside without a heavy coat, we don’t have temperatures below 0 where I live, if you think that by “freezing” I meant ice and snow, that would be incorrect

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