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Ah yes, it's in the 30s. That sounds.... lovely? too warm? (startrek.website)

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[-] beefcat@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I will be controversial and say that I think Fahrenheit makes more sense when talking about the weather. Its scale simply makes more sense on human terms: 0 is fucking cold, 100 is fucking hot. This is about the tempurature range you can expect to experience between winter and summer throughout much of the world.

Celsius makes more sense for cooking (and everything else) since its scale is calibrated around the phase changes of water.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

No argument here. Fahrenheit offers better granularity within the range of temps that humans are likely to experience.

[-] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Fahrenheit is too granular, imo. In day to day life I almost always hear people talk about it in ranges of temperature (eg. "mid 70s") which defeats the point of having a more granular system.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Even in Celsius you often "it's been 25 and 30" etc. Weather is just not a super accurate thing, it can be different up or down the hill, at the next town over, etc, so I don't get the granularity argument. Maaaybe I can understand the one about 0 to 100 making sense for weather related temperatures to people used to it, maybe.

[-] rx8geek@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Except you don't actually need that level of accuracy when talking about temperatures humans experience.

For example, has the ability to identify outside temperature of 72 fahrenheit, not 71 fahrenheit, ever made a single bit of difference to any persons day to day experience? I really can't believe that would be true.

Places that use Celsius have no problem referring to temperatures for weather so the argument that farhenheit scale is superior due to more precision doesn't hold up.

The best temperature scale for weather is always going to be the one that everyone in that area is familiar with and nothing more than that.

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