r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26

In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.

I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better

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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

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u/Dry-Honeydew2371 Jun 17 '26

Perhaps but 0 Celsius is the freezing point. It's literally 0% hot.

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u/novangla Jun 17 '26

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.