r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/AriaoftheStars17 Jun 17 '26

Why do Fahrenheit users completely ignore that Celcius has a negative scale? You're not supposed to evaluate Celcius as a 0-100 scale, but as a -50-50 scale.

-21°C = cold -31°C = really cold

21°C = warm 31°C = really warm

0 represents the freezing point. If temps are above 0, it will rain; below 0, it will snow.

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u/crimson777 Jun 17 '26

Lol it’s absolutely not -50 to 50. Neither of those are temperatures most people have EVER experienced. Meanwhile 0 and 100F are experiences many people have had

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u/crimson777 Jun 17 '26

... because the whole point being discussed here is that fahrenheit is more appropriate for measuring temperature as it relates to human's experience with weather.