If only it was like that

Why wasn't I born in Sweden 😭.

Or a nice winter in the Balkans.

I work with Americans and this hits home hard. It's especially infuriating when they format their dates. "I had a meeting with so-and-so on 4/5" and nobody has any fucking clue what they mean.

The worst part is how hopelessly oblivious they are about it. It's not even like they don't care that nobody does things their stupid way - it's the fact that they're so insulated that they can't even fathom that nobody does things the same way they do. It just goes to show how clueless they are about the rest of the world and how little they get out of their neighborhoods.

It drives me mad. At this point, it's just offensive how ignorant they can be sometimes. If you have to work with other people, you should at least make an effort to be aware of the fact that others do things a different way and try to avoid situations like this, but they just refuse to do so.

Apologies... /rant

Isn't basing a temperature scale on the freezing and boiling points of water a bit arbitrary in and of itself?

The reason they are arbitrary numbers in Fahrenheit is because they weren't considerations when the scale was made.

I would like to dump on America for this but as Scotland is in the UK we have some unholy abomination of in between when it comes to our measurements.

Perkele!

The thing to remember is that air is a great insulator. Air at 100°C isn't nearly as bad as say water or metal at the same temperature against the skin. In fact, the air that comes in contact with the comparatively cold human skin will cool down rapidly, forming a layer of cooler air around you and lessening the sensation of heat further.

100°C is a quite hot one. It could hurt your nose and ears a bit, especially if they having a steaming session.

The cold water (normally ~10°C) does not hurt at all. The first minute your brain is not able to differentiate the temperature at all. After that it gets quite quickly into: ohh I should leave!

Btw: you should try sauna at some point. Especially with the steaming it's amazing. There are also milder ones with ~80°C, I would recommend at the start.

Yes. It's wonderful. It feels great physically and mentally. Wim Hoff is a bit crazy tho tbh

Wim Hof, the guy who ahredded his intestines by giving himself an enema from a public water fountain while waiting to meet his estranged son?

You don't actually start boiling at 100C lol

Hmm, I sure love adding 273.15 to literally every single temperature I encounter

With school grades, when you get >100, you get bullied by your peers

Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?

Perfect running weather.

I diagnose you with "weak, non-Finnish blood."

Put a coat on, loser

What the fuck, aren't most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?

As a former Midwesterner (grew up there and lived there for 26 years), I never got used to the cold so I eventually moved South.

But turns out now I get cold at anything below 70F lol.

Are you saying global warming is actually caused by the bias of IGN reviewers?

Can you prove that?

Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It's all pretty subjective.

If course there's a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that's not for the overwhelming majority of people.

Minnesota checking in. This is exactly correct. Great time for sitting around a fire.

That's entirely a matter of habit. There is nothing special about 0°F (random point in the cold range?) or 100°F points (random point in the hot range?), you've been lied to.

We don't think -18°C to 38°C, we think -50°C to +50°C (regular Celsius weather thermometer, covers almost any temperature observed on Earth), with 0°C differentiating between snow/ice, "wintery" weather, and rain/mud, "non-wintery" one. That's how we know whether to take umbrella (no point if it snows, hat is your best friend), what kind of shoes are the best fit - cold-resistant or highly waterproof - or which kind of jacket is gonna fit the situation. Melting point of water is actually incredibly important weather-wise and entirely ignored by Fahrenheit scale.

When it's not winter, normal range is 0-40°C, with 20°C designating comfort temperature.

For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal,

The SI base unit for temperature is Kelvin with 0 K being the coldest possible temperature. 273.15 K is the melting point of ice. But it’s a lot better suited for temperature differences. Celsius is only a derived unit.

And well, all units and measurement systems had a lot of changes over time because some things turned out to be impractical or inaccurate.

Initially Celsius had 100° as the freezing point of water, 0° as the boiling point of water. Fahrenheit had 0° as the coldest temperature he could produce and the (wrong) average human body temperature at 90°. Kelvin was initially defined via Celsius, that got reversed, they have the same scale. There is also Rankine, which starts at 0 like Kelvin, but uses the Fahrenheit scale.

And the US partially uses SI units anyways, all units are derived from them to use their superior base unit definitions. This system came into existence to have unit definitions that are better reproducible and change less over time. Since everything was redefined and all numbers changed anyways, they also tried to make use of the "new" decimal representation of numbers. And new unit names were nice to create some general units, in contrast to foot and pound, which were always different from place to place, at times even from city to city.

I don’t expect the US to ever switch. The US switched to international yard and pound instead of switching to a decimal system. After US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa agreed on that one, all countries who remained using these units had a uniform definition for them. Since then you don’t need to know any longer which yard or pound it was. Though not all units got standardized by that.

And some countries didn’t drop all old units and metricized some instead. Even SI kept the ton(ne). You can’t know what 1t exactly means without knowing the context, it can be 2240lb, 2000lb or 1000kg (~2204.6226lb).

Aviation is already backwards; aviators give distance to travel in nautical miles, visibility in statute miles, altitude and runway length in feet, speed in knots, weight in pounds, volume in gallons, and temperature in celsius. My favorite is the standard adiabatic lapse rate is given as 2°C/1000 feet.

Celcius us a horrible scale for science or engineering. The world literally explodes when water freezes.

I mean, it's literally freezing.

Tbh all I care about with wether temp is wether it's possible to snow or not. So on that front Celsius is quite intuitive and useful.

Ok is -273.15 C.

22.5 is about the point where it starts being too warm

51 would not be a passing grade in most of the US

Quite the opposite, I think anything above 28 C would kill me in a day or two.

I'm Mister White Christmas, I'm Mister Snow.

I'm Mister Icicle; I'm Mister Ten below.

Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch,

turns to snow in my clutch.

I'm too much.

Dont kink shame

Nonlinear measures are used for

1. Brightness of lights
2. Loudness of noises
3. Magnitude of earthquakes

Why not temperature?

“It’s snowing so climate change can’t be real!”

Yeah I guess I agree, 0 to 40 makes much more sense in the context of temperatures humans typically exist in than 0 to 100

That last sentence was a largely facetious, poking fun at people who live in areas where it can get colder than 0° in winter or hotter than 100° in summer, who have a habit of telling other people that the extremes aren't that extreme. In reality the fahrenheit scale is pretty useful the world around, barring deserts

69 °C

25°C is 77°F; context for any Americans here.

It was 30c at midnight here last night

I'm Brazilian and, although I'm not in the hottest area, summer easily hits 40°C, so yeah, 25°C is not perfect, that would be 20°C, but is pretty good still

As an Australian enjoying summer right now I honestly think it's a bit chilly on days we don't get to 25C.

I'm Canadian and I agree. 25 c is the edge of what's bearable but closer to 20 c is better.

Move to Saskatchewan if you want hell both ways, summers in the 40s and winters in the -50s. YAY

Tbh, in summer I sleep with the airco on 27c. Where I live summer gets a nice and toasty 30c+ 24/7 @ 80%+ humidity. 25c feels amazing compared to that.

Before I moved here, I'd also have said 20c was ideal though :)

Where I live now stays between 30 and 90F. I lived in Saskatchewan and it would go between -40 and 100F. Crazy weather. Closest was maybe Denver but even Denver gets into the -20s F regularly.

I dunno, here in the Rockies that doesn't sound that weird. High altitude, low humidity. We'll get at least one or two 100+ heat waves in the summer (106 is the hottest I've seen here), and in the winter it can drop below zero at night. Granted, the last couple decades has made the former more common and the latter less, so I don't know if we'll see sub 0 this year. It used to be pretty common though

I grew up in Iowa which would see 0f and 100f every year easily. Now I live in Bangkok which is basically just 90-100 year round. I'm not sure Celsius helps either that much. But outside Iowa I haven't cared much about the temp outside ever either.

Yeah the US never gets -1 or 101

I have lived in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Iowa. We get the northern winds from Alberta. It sometimes gets kinda cold, Aay

One of those places was in the US haha