What the fuck is a Fahrenheit?

And a Fahrenheit is 1/100 the temperature difference between frozen salt brine and Mrs Fahrenheit’s armpit. Also the answer to how hot it is outside on a scale from 0-100.

Isn't a foot defined as 0.3048 meters anyways?

So its really a metric derivative

Great game, great series

Indigo Prophecy in the US, ironically.

I might not agree with you but I respect you for taking the defense of the freedom units on a yuropean post.

RIP we will bury your mangled corpse 182.88 centimeters under ground.

What the fuck is Celsius?

Celsius is the temperature scale of water.

One milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree Celsius; which is one percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point.

No, it's not better. Nor is it worse per see, it's just a matter of being used to it. The advantage of using Celsius in day to day stuff is just that I don't need to learn and convert two different scales. Because we all do chemistry every day (unless you don't cook. In that case, learn to cook, it's quite the skill).

It just boils down down to which you've grown up with. You're so used to using F it just seems obvious, but at least to me, the numbers seem a bit random and arbitrary.

But I know that 0C is literally freezing out and that the roads and pavements could be icy. And I also know that 30C is a very hot day (to me) just through experience and not knowing any other scale and being exposed to C all the time.

So by this logic I would expect 50F to be the perfect temperature.

Did you wander into the wrong neighborhood mate? Fuck that useless unit. Celsius FTW.

-50C is real cold - about as cold as regular humans will ever be exposed to, and survive, anywhere (outside of Antarctica). +50C is real hot - about as hot as regular humans will ever be exposed to (and survive).

Nice and symmetric.

Of course there's a little bit of flexibility in these descriptions. I believe both Baghdad and Yarkutsk have surpassed their respective "50"-lines without killing their complete populations.

I don't know about you but I do not only use temperature in order to know if my body is hot or if outside is cold or not. I usually use temperature scales in order to know if my computer is hot, my car/bike engine, my food, water for cooking, water for showering, and sometimes since all life is water based I like to know if my food is freezed or is boling. And since at sea level water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C (damn how cool!), then I have an scale that I can use for weather but at the same time for everything else it's very intuitive to use in an habitat where all life depends on water. Cook this at 120: oh okay the recipe wants me to boil water I may not even need to measure the water because when it starts boiling that's it.

Having water as a reference is quite normal if you are going to need a scale for more than just forecasting weather, like, for everything else.

I’ll just set my oven to “real hot times four” then.

Sigh.

There is no temperature scale that is better than the other when it comes to how you define a comfortable temperature.

Doing that is all about what you are used to.

Arguing about weather to not the waether is hot/cold outside at 23 is just a matter of what the numbers mean to you.

Looking at science, C is better than F, simply because C uses are simpler definition, K is even better since it starts ar absolute zero.

K is however a more annoying scale to use for normal/human temps.

The C/F debate is just damn annoying at this point, neither side will be able to convince the orher that they are right.

Just learn a few basic points on the scale in the other scale.

Uh... 0C is also real cold. 100C is also real hot.

Lol only because you insist on 100 being an everyday number for some reason. Having a temperature scale zeroed at freezing is incredibly convenient. Is it going to freeze? Well 0 will tell you. Is it going to snow or rain? 0 will tell you. That shit falls from the fucking sky you know. How many degrees above or below freezing is it? Holy fuck I can just look at the number and don't have to do math.

I've used both metric and imperial and F is fine if all you are doing is choosing what clothes to wear. For anything to do with science or engineering, C just makes more sense. Internally consistent unit systems are a no brained. Fuck having to multiply by some arbitrary number just because your temperature units don't relate to your volume units (or whatever)

I like in a Celsius country but have switched all my digital thermometers to F for exactly this reason. It's just more intuitive, and I happen to like it at 70F, so below that convenient number is cool, and above it is warm.

The thing about Fahrenheit being more intuitive is it will just depend on what scale you're used to. If anything having the scale relate to water makes more sense for cooking but again since nothing is being converted it doesn't really matter. If you want an actually superior American unit of measurment imo look no further than cups. Using volume over weight has made following recipes much easier for me.

Thank you for injecting some sense into this thread. I love the Metric system, but Fahrenheit is so much better when weather is involved.

I like the current hybrid system America has, where weather is measured in °F, and science and computing uses °C & Kelvin. Makes the most logical sense. Just wish Metric was used for other things that make more sense to use it for, like cooking/baking and distance.

Despite the downvotes, you are absolutely correct.

Let’s all start out agreeing that units of measurement (distance, length, weight, etc.) in the US is absolutely idiotic. I will back up every European who says this, 100%. Miles, inches, pounds, pints, quarts, fractions; it’s a mess. Objectively, if I remove all my cultural biases (I’m American) metric is just better. A lot better. No question.

And when we are talking about scientific pursuit, and probably cooking too, Celsius is a great unit of measure.

But ambient temperature, the temperature of the environment, Fahrenheit is better. It covers the range of human experience and neatly ties it to a 1-100 scale. It’s a “how hot is it” scale. Celsius’ -18 – 38 degrees just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when describing the temperatures you will experience during 99% of your time on earth. Further, Celsius’ units are slightly too big to useful, I’ve seen weather reports in Europe say the expected temperature to a 10th of a degree, while Fahrenheit is granular enough not to need to.

Metrics base ten is great when it comes to distance and weight. And it accurately allows for relative comparison (ten meters is twice that of five.) But ambient temperature does not work like that; 20 degrees is not twice that of 10, and the base 10 units doesn’t effectively exist for temperature.

To all those who will downvote me, I get it. You’re very used to being on the objectively right side of sanity re: units of measurement and rightfully so. But I ask you to set aside your cultural bias and muscle memory for a moment and objectively think about what range of measurement makes more sense for ambient temperature and ambient temperature only.

Put another way, with Celsius, one has to be accustomed to the possible range of values. With Fahrenheit, most people understand 1-100 intuitively.