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Doesn’t make sense to use a measure based on boiling water for weather.
Remind me again; what exactly is Fahrenheit based on?
Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts.
Oh right, it’s based on freezing and boiling points, and everything else about it is just wildly arbitrary and unnecessarily complicated.
It is better scale for human habitation. No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather. That is stupid. Then you use a decimal for finer scale. Just use 0 to 100.
It is better scale for human habitation.
Citation needed, since the rest of the world seems to understand how Celsius feels just fine.
Like any learned system, it makes perfect sense to me that 25°C is pretty nice and 0°C is pretty chilly, and anytime it’s below 0°C the precipitation is different. Pretty straightforward.
However, when I hear that its a nice 72°F day in the US, that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Nor does 32°F have any relationship with sanity or scale when that’s randomly the freezing point.
No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather.
That’s not how anyone has every thought about the weather, using any system.
Just use 0 to 100.
That’s what we’re doing already
Don’t forget the freezing point of water which is most relevant for weather.
take your downvotes
We’re doomed to see this comically bad take again and again unless and until by some miracle the US education system improves
What do you mean? US has the most intellectual capital. Your top 100 universities in the world are mostly in the US.
13% of adults are illiterate (124 other countries in the world with higher literacy rates).
Almost half the population thinks humans aren’t contributing to climate change.
40% of people believe the earth was created a few thousand years ago.
42% of people think Russia is communist.
And on average people in the US think 22% of the population is Muslim, where the real number is more like 1%.
