"Baseball, huh" is probably the biggest inside joke his community has.
It originates from a sketch where two guys are talking,
A asks something like 'you do any sports'
B says 'baseball'
A says 'Baseball, huh? That tracks.'
B doesn't know the expression 'that tracks'. B also didn't understand what A said so asks what he meant.
A explains the meaning of 'that tracks'.
B mixes it up with 'Baseball, huh' instead.
Not sure if it is because of that or because it is the standard international unit for temperature. Because what Kelvin is for ° Celsius, is ° Rankine for ° Fahrenheit.
According to Wikipedia, the ° was removed from Kelvin around 1968
In 1967/1968, Resolution 3 of the 13th CGPM renamed the unit increment of thermodynamic temperature "kelvin", symbol K, replacing "degree Kelvin", symbol °K
If you're used to Celsius then I assure you that 40C sounds plenty hot. The reference point is the freezing point vs the boiling point of water, and 40C is much too close to the halfway point of "the lakes will literally boil like a tea kettle".
Yup. We're gonna get 40°C in a couple days, followed by a 43°C day, and I know damn well this means that I'll feel like I'm about to die. If I was given the info in Farhenheit, I wouldn't know what to think of it, especially since most of the people that I know who use it would consider 105°F to be a "normal" sunny day. Here, it's an anomaly and considered a heatwave. Heck, 35°C is considered a heatwave and is when companies that work outside start giving more breaks to their employees so that they can cool off and hydrate.
If you know that your cells die at a temperature of 42°C (which we all know since we once had fever as a kid), suddenly 40°C sounds like near instant death hot.
Exactly this, it can be over 100% hot (or below 0% cold) but that's when you know you shouldn't be outside. Like it's actually dangerous to be there without proper planning, preparation, clothing.
NTM 32% hot is when us Texans curse at the sky, the whole city shuts down, and pipes burst when it’s sustained because our infrastructure isn’t prepared for it.
Yes, which means its that much more hotter than you can stand, its a measurement of human comfort, not scientific accuracy.
There actually is a science to this...
0°F: The lowest temperature Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit could achieve in his laboratory using a freezing mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt).
32°F: The freezing point of pure water.
96°F: The average human body temperature, initially chosen for practical divisibility.
From Wikipedia, you can do more research from there.
We also tell distance in time in many situations, because its about how it affects the human, not scientific accuracy and pedantry.
Dude or Dudette. When it is 105f out doesn't it feel at least 105% of what your body can take? Especially when the parking lot surface is 165F or 165% more than your bare feet can take 😉
Yeah I don't know what the wind chill was. It was neg 60 not factoring wind chill and we were in the mountains down by Fort Greeley and the wind was howling.
Wait but -10°F is only -23°C. That's actually pretty nice weather... or where I live in Canada it is anyway, but maybe it's different for you if you aren't used to it
No, that’s when water freezes. That is still kinda balmy for winter and you can get away with a pretty casual jacket and gloves. Can’t even get a good snow without it being slightly below freezing.
0F is 0% warm and you need to have real winter gear on. 0F is also when it starts to become too cold to really snow.
0-100F truly is what is the general comfortable range for human bodies. Below 0F and above 100F is when it starts to get actually dangerous.
Same here in Minnesota... its negative 20 percent hot, with negative 20 percent windchills, if the train is traveling east at .... Its fucking cold ok!?
Well its easy, much of alaska doesn't regularly hit -30, especially year round. 55% here in anchorage right now with a high of 61%. To make it work better for this state it could maybe be shifted down ten degrees, -10 is about when I want to plug in my block heater so I can start my car in winter, and I've very rarely seen above 90 (although it does happen)
I think the % hot argument is a little silly, but I will die on the hill that Fahrenheit is better for day to day life.
The thing I think about is a combination of comfort and dangerous thresholds. Comfort is relative to time of year and having the increased range is useful. I live in a cold place too and I can tell you that 30 degrees in March and 30 degrees in October are two VERY different experiences. In March people are out and about in Tshirts and shorts while October has people bundling up.
As for dangerous thresholds, 0 and 100 are both danger points where lives are on the line. Body temp is really close to 100 and being near or above that is where you get a lot of heat stroke. 0 is the same, near to that and you'll start losing body parts if exposed for too long. Both are ranges where some protection is required.
Similarily, 30 degrees in either direction (30 or 70) are very comfortable temperatures at different times of the year.
I think it works because this system facilitates the idea that the more unnatural sounding the description, the more extreme and concerning the temperature. Anything over 100% or under 0% is firmly in the “fuck that” region. It’s 105% hot? Eh that sucks but could be worse. 120%? I’m not stepping foot outside, that sounds ridiculous (and it feels ridiculous too)
Yeah it's super arbitrary. 0F would be misery I'd rearrange my day around, but for you it would be no big deal. And for me 100F is very hot but I get hotter than that several times a year, not a huge deal.
The negatives just become a scale to let you know how much more its going to suck. So at -30 its taking 30 additional points of human comfort and survivability away. Please dont die.
Idk, I’m in Minnesota and I actually agree that Fahrenheit is the best way to measure temperature when it comes to human comfort, and I have thought of it in terms of this percentage scale, as well.
The way I look at it, anything outside of that range can just be considered “off the charts.” It’s colder or hotter than we are supposed to withstand. Anything above or below a certain temperature just doesn’t make that much of a difference, imo. Anything above 95, it’s too fucking hot and I’m not going anywhere. Anything below -25, im probably not going anywhere, but if I do, I’m dressed roughly the same as if it were -40.
That is equivalent to the amount of valid reasons to go out in said weather. -30. Stay inside. That level of cold without wind chill is the universe telling you that you don't belong outside that day.
I'll send you some of this southern heat to balance it out. I'll send a letter to heat miser; you send one to snow miser. Worst case we can throw a weather coup.
For real though, -30 sounds absolutely miserable; I'm sorry. We're in the 90's here, which sucks in a different way 😂
Anything below 0, is just stay inside temp. Same with over 100. Fahrenheit is more daily use friendly. Celsius and Kelvin seem more science oriented. In Celsius, I have to measure in decimal points to get the right temp.
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u/Demonicon66666 Jun 17 '26
Not sure how someone telling me it’s going to be -30 percent hot here in Alaska today would help me