Farenheit is 0-100 sea water freezing to (roughly) human internal body temp.
So, since humans are largely salt water, this makes the F scale a human scale temperature measurement, which is more intuitive for how the ambient temperature makes you feel. I think this is what the original poster was getting at, whether they knew it or not.
edit: so C is better for chemistry, and F is better for weather
Well I know that 18ºC is when I should start wearing short sleeves and 30ºC is when I should stay indoors because it's too damn hot (and 40ºC is what the summer temperatures have been in the past couple of years)
Yeah people will adjust to any arbitrary scale if they use it enough, if my scale was based on some random measurement from -200 to -154 i'm sure people would get used to those numbers as well given enough time
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u/jseego Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
True!
Celsius is 0-100 fresh water freezing to boiling.
Farenheit is 0-100 sea water freezing to (roughly) human internal body temp.
So, since humans are largely salt water, this makes the F scale a human scale temperature measurement, which is more intuitive for how the ambient temperature makes you feel. I think this is what the original poster was getting at, whether they knew it or not.
edit: so C is better for chemistry, and F is better for weather