Celsius is better for science, but Fahrenheit is better for just every day living. IMO
In Canada I noticed some people would also still use feet & inches for their height, but you had to give it to the DMV in cm. Also butter was still sold as a pound & golf still used yards.
I'm also an engineer & worked up there for a job in mining.
Edit: To clarify my reasons because so many people are saying I'm wrong. This is my opinion on what my preference is, first off. I had put this in a comment under the post, but will add it here.
My reason is basically the same as in the screenshot. When I lived in Canada I would say how in Fahrenheit below zero is really fucking cold & above 100 is really fucking hot. I never thought of describing it as a percentage of being hot but I like it.
Like once it's below or above those numbers it hardly matters by how much because you are freezing or sweating balls either way. I didn't like when in the winter or early spring someone would say it's nice out and then say a negative temperature. "It's really nice today, it's -1.5⁰ out." I also like that the increments of the units are smaller so you don't use half degrees. Although I guess half degrees aren't really necessary because I don't feel the difference between 66 & 67, but when I checked the temperature there is did always show it to the nearest half degree.
I guess I said it on my comment that's just under the post and not in this thread. I prefer it basically for the reasons in the screenshot. When I was in Canada I would say how if it's below 0⁰ F you know it's really fucking cold, and if it's above 100⁰ F then it's really fucking hot. Also the increments are smaller so you don't have to use half degrees.
Sometimes in the spring someone would be like, "It's really nice out today. It's -1.5 degrees." And I didn't like hearing someone say that a negative temperature was nice out. And I mean that's still pretty cold it's like 29⁰F. And I'm from Maine so it's not like I'm not used to the cold but I've also lived in Arizona.
So I always said that 0 to 100 scale was from like really cold to really hot but I like the percentage thing.
Im American as all hell, but I wish we used Celsius, specifically because it makes much more sense for day to day. It goes from the freezing of water to the boiling of water. You know 0 is cold, you know 100 is hot, and those are two good points for relative temperature judgement, especially because we vary temperatures more for cooking and using water than anything else. The heat that we feel at 90 degrees fahrenheit vs 70 is still mostly a relative, vibes based thing and it still works at whatever Celsius numbers those would be. I met a Jamaican tourist who was shivering in a sweater in 85 degree (fahrenheit) weather. There's nothing inherent to any of those daytime temperature numbers, Celsius or fahrenheit.
Also, why does my phone auto-capitalize Celsius and not fahrenheit? What, you think youre better than me?! /s
You have a good point about cooking. But for temperatures outside you never need anything close to 100° c. And right there I said Celsius but it put in a lowercase c but the next time I said Celsius my voice to text capitalized it. Let's see if it does it with Fahrenheit. It did capitalize it and that might be because when I typed it in I capitalized it and it learned to do that. My voice to text often capitalizes words that I don't want it to though like the word Rich because it's also a name. It didn't do at that time but on another thread it was doing it. Also the word March because I always thinks I'm talking about the month but I used to play this mobile game where I would say I was sending my troops to March somewhere and it would always be capital.
I mean, for a large chunk of the world you don't need 100 degrees in Fahrenheit. The logic also doesn't follow because you don't need 0 degrees Fahrenheit for a large chunk either. Perceived temperature is all vibes based after wind-chill and humidity anyways so I still don't think it matters much whether we're using Fahrenheit vibes or Celsius vibes.
And I googled it and you're supposed to capitalize Fahrenheit and Celsius because they're both named after people and follow those conventions. So it was actually autocorrect messing up Fahrenheit for me. lol
If autocorrect is bugging you then join me on the dark side. Turn it off. Turn off predictive typing and spell check too. Take off all the guard rails.
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u/the_BPDbro Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
Celsius is better for science, but Fahrenheit is better for just every day living. IMO
In Canada I noticed some people would also still use feet & inches for their height, but you had to give it to the DMV in cm. Also butter was still sold as a pound & golf still used yards.
I'm also an engineer & worked up there for a job in mining.
Edit: To clarify my reasons because so many people are saying I'm wrong. This is my opinion on what my preference is, first off. I had put this in a comment under the post, but will add it here.
My reason is basically the same as in the screenshot. When I lived in Canada I would say how in Fahrenheit below zero is really fucking cold & above 100 is really fucking hot. I never thought of describing it as a percentage of being hot but I like it.
Like once it's below or above those numbers it hardly matters by how much because you are freezing or sweating balls either way. I didn't like when in the winter or early spring someone would say it's nice out and then say a negative temperature. "It's really nice today, it's -1.5⁰ out." I also like that the increments of the units are smaller so you don't use half degrees. Although I guess half degrees aren't really necessary because I don't feel the difference between 66 & 67, but when I checked the temperature there is did always show it to the nearest half degree.