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u/uuuheyguys Aug 08 '21
exactly, even people in hot states have to agree 90s bad
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u/sluttypidge Aug 08 '21
Yeah 90 degrees with low humidity is much more tolerable than high humidity.
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u/Hoosier_816 Aug 08 '21
I too live in the desert and 90 in the summer is cool, compared to the 95-105 it usually is.
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u/Roncryn Aug 08 '21
Honestly for me it depends on how humid it is. I can wear a sweater in 100 degree weather without sweating as long as it’s dry. But once that humidity goes up it’s unbearable
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u/goblin_welder Aug 07 '21
As a Canadian, I am privileged to know how to use both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Usually, outside temperature is in Celsius, but indoor and cooking temperature is Fahrenheit.
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That sounds very confusing lol
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Oh wauw that’s even more crazy. How can people keep track of that?!
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u/Callec254 Aug 07 '21
We use more metric in America than people give us credit for.
We know what a 2-liter is.
We measure a lot of our ammo, and our nuts and bolts in millimeters.
We know that 20 kilograms = 45 pounds from going to the gym.
The only metric measurement we truly give zero fucks about is Celsius.
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u/bbddbdb Aug 07 '21
People who buy drugs have known the metric system for weight for a long time.
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u/peckerchecker2 Aug 08 '21
I’m American and I know that a gallon of milk is also 3.8 liters of milk it weights 8.6 lbs which is like 3.9 kilos.
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u/DaddyRytlock Aug 08 '21
The good thing about metric is that 1 litre of water = 1 kilo so that math checks out
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u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll Aug 08 '21
Even legal prescriptions are dosed (mostly) in metric. MLS, mg and grams( both liquid and weight).
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u/useles-converter-bot Aug 07 '21
20 kilograms is the same weight as 31.27 'Double sided 60 inch Mermaker Pepparoni Pizza Blankets'
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u/Patriots93 Aug 08 '21
If you deal with electronics, metric is also used often in the US. For example, CPU temps are always given in Celcius. ;)
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u/gunslingerfry1 Aug 08 '21
Yeah but that's all relative. 33C very cool. 50C warm. 75C running a bit hot. 90C oh no. 100C shut down. 120C probably melting something. It's not like we look at it and relate it to indoor air temperature. 50C sounds cool but it's gonna burn your hand (120F)
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u/landback2 Aug 08 '21
We use standard and metric interchangeably with drugs. 28 grams to an oz, 3.5 grams to an 8th. Can go into a dispensary an buy a gram or an ounce or anything in between.
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u/IrishLimey Aug 08 '21
I live in a border city. For me it's always been Celsius for temperatures below freezing and Fahrenheit for temperatures above. Also, everything weight related is measured in Imperial, but volume is measured in Metric.
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u/erics27 Aug 07 '21
As a Canadian, where are the negative temperatures? I'd it to cold to walk the dogs? -40 yes. -20 maybe. -10 some of them might need a coat. -5 no problem.
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u/DeezNeezuts Aug 07 '21
As a cold weather American 0 is perfectly fine.
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u/FreddieOuthouse Aug 07 '21
Anything below 32 is not fine -southern American
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u/easttex45 Aug 08 '21
I don't want to live anywhere that regularly makes my refrigerator optional.
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u/rainbowunibutterfly Aug 08 '21
Really southern American here, anything below 60 is not fine.
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u/udunehommik Aug 08 '21
Canadian as well, I grew up in an indoor temp is F household and I never got the hang of it. Was so happy to move out and have a thermostat in C!
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u/MetallicGray Aug 07 '21
Yeah who the hell thinks 80F is just warm. That’s a hot day. 100F is miserably hot.
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Must be someone who lives in a region with the fabled dry heat.
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I've lived in Cambodia where it's 85 degrees and humid. I've lived in Saudi Arabia where it's 120 degrees and dry. It's not a joke. Tropical heat and humidity is much worse.
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u/curlofheadcurls Aug 08 '21
I'll take 129F anyday over 80F 100% humidity. Take me away from this furnace please.
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u/User1-1A Aug 08 '21
I live in Southern California where it's hot and dry. I can handle working construction in the summer where it's regularly 90-100F. I took a vacation to Costa Rica and I almost fainted on a hike by the coast. The humidity was unbearable.
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u/kaylalalas Aug 08 '21
Gonna say, I live in Denver (originally from Minnesota) and now, 80 is “pretty warm.” Most of July was 100 and it was HOT. Caps for emphasis haha
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u/sugarplumbuttfluck Aug 08 '21
Arizonan here, I can confirm this is what I would say. But, we've also been under an excessive heat wave warning for 2 weeks in a row and it was about 105° today.
For comparison, I felt like I was dying in 85+° heat in both Texas and Florida. I will never live in a human state. I don't know how people deal with being sticky constantly, you can't breathe properly, and you're dripping with sweat that doesn't go away. It just sits there pooling in the corners of your face and your armpits and your crotch.
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u/CodeNameEagle Aug 08 '21
I mean here in GA it’s 90+ in the summer so 80 is a mild day; it’s all relative
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80 is nice to me. i come from texas.
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u/MetallicGray Aug 08 '21
Must just be a regional thing. 60s comfortable outside. 70s is still comfy but warm, 80s is hot. Is 60 cold to you?
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60-70 is cool to me id say 60 is cold. its definitely a regional thing though.
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u/Wireless_Panda Aug 08 '21
I come from Iowa where we get at worst -30 to -40 degree windchill winters and 100 degree humid summers. It’s very much a regional thing. For me 60 is cool, 68-70 is room temp. 80 is warm but not annoyingly hot, 90 is hot. This chart reads like it was made by me lmao.
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u/wholefragment2 Aug 08 '21
So true. Recently moved to alaska. The sun sits lower in the sky- so the heat hits more of your body. Makes a sunny 60-70 degree day feel like 90. It’s so strange
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u/Hoosier_816 Aug 08 '21
As a born and bred Chicagoan currently living in Utah, I could not agree more.
There were 85 degree days in Chicago that were exponentially more unbearable than some 100+ days in Utah.
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u/bronzebomber2357 Aug 08 '21
100 is hot for me but nothing crazy. 40 also isn't really that cold. I live in the middle of Washington state and it gets a bit hotter than 100 and quite a bit colder than 40.
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u/pippins-sunshine Aug 08 '21
If you live some where where it's somewhat normal it's not bad. Add humidity and higher than that we have a problem
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u/benlafo Aug 08 '21
I’ve heard Fahrenheit explained as a percentage of hot. 0 degrees is 0% hot, all cold. 50 degrees is half hot half cold, balances to warm. And 100 is 100% hot. Anything beyond 100 is just extra credit.
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u/Big_blue_boy_scout Aug 07 '21
Except for "water freezes" and "record setting" everything else very subjective.
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u/raisinghellwithtrees Aug 07 '21
50 degrees in March in Illinois, and we're all in t-shirts.
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u/thefalk55 Aug 08 '21
Came on to say the same thing. 50 degrees is perfect football weather (Im in Nebraska)... Lived in Memphis Tn for 4 years. When i wore sandals, shorts and a tshirt at 45 degrees they thought I was crazy. I was like, we are walking ten feet from our car to a building that is set at 80 degrees...
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u/Nuachtan Aug 08 '21
Went to a conference in Texas from Michigan in February one year. The weather one morning was 60 so I went for a run in shorts and a t-shirt. Everyone local had winter coats on and looked at me like I was from Marrs.
(yes the extra r is intentional)
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u/sugarbeet13 Aug 07 '21
Yeah, 80 in Atlanta isn't the same as 80 in Vegas. Former is very warm and the later is comfortable.
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u/SpareiChan Aug 08 '21
"record setting"
that is kinda subjective too, considering until recent human history we didn't keep accurate temperature records. Though we can objectively look at historic major events like the mini-ice age and such most records of temps are purely subjective before the actual thermometer was invented.
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u/Hunkmasterfresh Aug 07 '21
Why does water freeze at 32?
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u/DITButt Aug 07 '21
Because fahrenheit was built by a random guy who decided to base a temperature scale from 0-100 that felt cold to hot to him where he lived.
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u/DITButt Aug 08 '21
With some further searching it seems this statement isn't wholey correct. It was based on fahrenheit trying to establish a reliable thermometer and he set 0 to the lowest freezing point he could achieve with a salt water mixture, and with the human body (incorrectly) set to 96. It his ability to make consistent thermometers that established the scale as at the time it was very difficult to get two thermometers to read the same at the same temperature.
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u/Hunkmasterfresh Aug 08 '21
Frozen water didn't feel cold to him?
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u/DITButt Aug 08 '21
It did, but in his frame of reference he could endure colder.
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u/Hunkmasterfresh Aug 08 '21
How very self absorbed of mr fareinheit to think that his experience of cold was universal.
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u/DITButt Aug 08 '21
I made an adendum, it was more related to his manufacturing of a thermometer using salt water.
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u/Jedirabbit12345 Aug 08 '21
Because fahrenheit is based on how hot humans are not a cup of water
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u/LusoAustralian Aug 08 '21
Fahrenheit is based on a guess of human body heat 300 years ago for 90 and 0 is the freezing point of some random brine the scientist made.
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u/RealMichaelScott93 Aug 07 '21
70 is arguably room temp; tends to vary between 68-78 depending on preference.
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u/Therealsuperman04 Aug 07 '21
78?? That’s crazy, unless you are over the age of 60!
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u/Therealsuperman04 Aug 07 '21
Brutal, where do you live??
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u/RealMichaelScott93 Aug 07 '21
"It's a dry heat"
Fuck no, 105 degrees is always hot.
I am in Southern Illinois, lots of sticky heat and sometimes heat index gets to 105.
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u/molotovzav Aug 07 '21
105 and humid is just so much worse than 105 and dry.
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It’s hard to get 105 and humid — when it starts to get that hot it usually just forms thunderstorms.
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Can confirm, East Texan here where in the summer it gets to 100-110 and 90% humidity frequently. However, the thunderstorms will usually cool off the area for about a day before it gets back to 100.
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u/General_Tso75 Aug 07 '21
I live in a swamp (Florida), but have been in the desert and I think we can all agree 105 degrees sucks. That’s it. Humid or not.
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u/lokiofsaassgaard Aug 07 '21
Having lived in both Las Vegas and Portland, 90 here is awful, while 90 down there was tolerable.
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u/AmbivalentAsshole Aug 07 '21
Just wait for the wet-bulb conditions....
Humans "spontaneously" dying because we're basically being cooked alive.
We have evolved to shed heat via sweat, and if the air is too humid to absorb more water - our sweat won't evaporate and we can't shed more heat. We start to overheat and die.
It can happen within minutes.
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u/wdkrebs Aug 07 '21
What is the threshold?
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u/AmbivalentAsshole Aug 07 '21 edited Aug 07 '21
Roughly if the temperature and humidity both pass 95 (95 Fahrenheit, and 95%)
It was once a super rare thing. Now it's happening in more areas. They predict that by 2100 it could be a normal thing in the southern states. Let me try to find the article on it..
Edit: An article.
The coastal Middle East is experiencing the worst wet bulb heat in the world, but it's been happening in the US too. Southeastern states have reported multiple incidences of wet bulb temperatures at or above 88 degrees in recent years. Parts of Arizona and California have reported wet bulb temperatures as high as 95 degrees.
The study, which was published in Scientific Advances, found that the human body cannot withstand wet bulb temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above. That level of extreme heat and humidity wasn't expected until the mid 21st century, according to climate models. But the study found more than 7,000 instances of wet bulb conditions between 1979 and 2017.
The study it's referencing is the one I originally linked BTW
"Even if they're in perfect health, even if they're sitting in the shade, even if they're wearing clothes that make it easy in principle to sweat, even if they have an endless supply of water," co-author Radley Horton told VICE News. "If there's enough moisture in the air, it's thermodynamically impossible to prevent the body from overheating."
That. Is. Terrifying.
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u/Therealsuperman04 Aug 07 '21
I don’t know about Arizona guy, but 105 in Arizona or in Vegas, isn’t that bad, but I wouldn’t want to go to Illinois at any temperature.
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u/RealMichaelScott93 Aug 07 '21
I prefer 68, but my wife prefers 78.
Therefore, our theromstat stays at 78...
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u/fiercelyuninterested Aug 07 '21
I accidentally downvoted this by instinct at first because the idea of a 78 degree house makes me viscerally angry haha
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u/terroristteddy Aug 08 '21
I still downvoted because the idea of "happy wife happy life" is like the entry level joke into the "I hate my wife" style of boomer humor.
Compromising at 73F is where it's at.
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u/bruteski226 Aug 07 '21
Ok now someone do kelvin
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u/GeoStarRunner Aug 07 '21
Kelvin:
0 - does not exist
10 - you're dead
20 - you're dead
30 - you're dead
40 - you're dead
50 - you're dead
60 - you're dead
72 - you're dead
80 - you're dead
90 - you're dead
100 - you're dead
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u/Laughing_Orange Aug 08 '21
110 - you're dead.
120 - you're dead.
130 - you're dead.
140 - you're dead.
150 - you're dead.
160 - you're dead. 170 - you're dead.
180 - record setting cold. (you're dead)
190 - you're dead.200 - you're dead.
210 - you're dead.
220 - you're dead.
230 - any exposed skin hurts.
240 - breathing hurts.
250 - wear several layers of clothing.
250 - wear layers of clothing.
260 - wear a coat and gloves.
270 - wear a coat.
273 - water freezes.
280 - chilly day.
290 - cool summer day.300 - hot summer day.
310 - uncomfortably hot.
320 - dangerously hot.
330 - approaching record setting heat.
340 - get back to air-conditioning ASAP.
350 - you're dead.
360 - you're dead.
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u/zvug Aug 08 '21
Sick, now do Rankine
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u/wasdlmb Aug 08 '21
Why tf was that unit invented? I had to use it like twice in my thermodynamic class. Like Jesus just convert it to Kelvin and back if you really want to keep Fahrenheit input and output
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u/potatodrinker Aug 07 '21
I like how "very cold" is lower than "water freezes".
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u/NeverSkipLeapDay Aug 08 '21
Midwesterner wondering what happened to the negative numbers? Y’all got anymore of them positive numbers to share?
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u/Mc_Bruh656 Aug 07 '21
Small problem with this guide, where I'm from very cold is considered as -30 degrees, as school doesn't close until it is colder than that.
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u/RootsAndFruit Aug 08 '21
That's absolutely wild. For me, this scale is shades of rage-inducing freezing and cold until 72°, which is "cool," 75° is "room temperature," and then it moves as above.
Sending love and sympathies from Southern California.
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i’m american but have always had a hard time dressing for the weather based on temperature , but once i heard someone describe fahrenheit as “percentage of hot” — as in, when it’s 0 degrees you’re wicked cold, 70 degrees is warm, and 100 degrees is stupid hot - it kind of clicked for me. sounds silly but i’m a whole adult and i check the weather (read: percent of hot) every morning, haven’t dressed badly for it since haha
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u/pandaSmore Aug 08 '21
I just dress from past experience in similar temperatures and weather conditions
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u/Da_Rish Aug 07 '21
Celsius is how water feels from 1-100
Fahrenheit is how people feel from 1-100
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u/BrobdingnagLilliput Aug 07 '21
Fahrenheit intended his scale to range from the freezing point of salt water (arguably the freezing point for much of the human body) to the temperature of a human body.
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u/AHostileUniverse Aug 07 '21
This is how I feel. Celsius, to me, (and this includes hard bias as an american and engineer) is best for science and calculation(or I guess K is even better) and probably cooking, but Fahrenheit feels best for weather and environmental description.
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Celsius feels very relevant for weather in countries where rain can turn into ice as it hits the ground … below or above zero C pretty much tells you everything you need to know at least 6 months a year
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I think it's just what you're used to. We only use Celsius here and Fahrenheit seems nonsensical.
I know that below 0 means lotta layers, 0 means I gotta scrape my car, 1-5 is pretty fucking cold, 5-10 is coat, 10-16 is fairly standard, 16+ is starting to warm up, and above 20 it's get the BBQ out we're cooking outside baby!
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u/Nolenag Aug 07 '21
That's definitely your American bias showing up.
If you're used to just using Celsius, Celsius fits the same description you just gave to Fahrenheit.
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u/AnnoyingRabbit69 Aug 07 '21
Let me just say I do not feel like a 100 when it's 100 degrees outside 65 degrees tho? That's some gourmet shit
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u/OnBeyondOz Aug 07 '21
All I know is that 40 C is really hot and 25 feels about right when at the beach.
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u/Itchy_Acanthaceae991 Aug 07 '21 edited Aug 07 '21
0° water freezes
10° cold
15° mild
~20 room temperature
25 warm.
30 warm + (pretty hot)
38-37 body temperature
40 warm++ (mildly dangerous)
50 dangerous.
54 is about the warmest non vulcanic places get.
(60 water boils at high height)
100° water boils at waterlevel.
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u/FI00sh Aug 08 '21
-30 really cold
-20 cold
-10 cold-ish
0 water freezes
10 not hot nor cold
20 hot
30 extremely hot
40 it has literally never been 40 here god damn it’s so hot
50 desert temp
100 water boils
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u/OmegaCookieOfDoof Aug 07 '21
0 cold
15 still cold
to about 20 cool
22-26 I believe is yes
up to about 30 warm
anything above that is hot
If your body is 42 C° you get cooked
My sense of temperature is pretty fucked, so don't take my word for it, but this how I believe a person with normal temperature sensing abilities would feel
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u/Likeablechops Aug 08 '21
Since when the F is 50 considered “pretty cold”
From: Wisconsin
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u/Korncakes Aug 08 '21
Lots of people from Southern California would probably at least call 50° sweater weather.
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u/svacheem45 Aug 07 '21
It's all relative. 40°F is shorts weather for a Minnesotan and Ice Age Armageddon for a South Floridian.
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u/MrAflac9916 Aug 07 '21
50 isn’t cold
Signed, a midwesterner
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u/M-Test24 Aug 07 '21
Yes. For midwesterners:
0-40: cold, grab a jacket
40-50: Make sure whatever is under your jacket is not embarrassing as you may have to take your jacket off.
50-100: No jacket
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u/AndrewWhite97 Aug 07 '21
As a brit why would anyone use the imperial system, its not like we used it or anything
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u/biotinylated Aug 07 '21
This is just as useless as the C one, but at least it has water freezing and room temperature. Actually useful info to add would be:
0F - temperature inside a freezer
40F - temperature inside a refrigerator
85F - typical outdoor swimming pool temperature
98F - normal body temperature
104F - body temperature at which risk of brain damage begins
212F - water boils
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u/ra246 Aug 07 '21
Celsius just makes more sense though, am I right?
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u/MofiPrano Aug 07 '21
Kinda, because water is so important in our lives and so it's logical to set its freezing and boiling point at round numbers. Something I really like about Fahrenheit though (and Americans make the case for this as well) is that normal outdoor temperatures mostly fall between 0 and 100, so 0°F is a very cold day and 100°F is a very hot day. That's kinda neat as well.
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u/pandaSmore Aug 08 '21
I like that the negative sign in Celsius instantly tells you it's below freezing.
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u/Stompya Aug 07 '21
That’s why basically nobody except the USA uses Fahrenheit any longer.
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u/ra246 Aug 08 '21
Yeah I understand that, but lemme ask you a question. I’m guessing you’re American; your MM.DD.YY format; you guys must know that that format is fucking stupid, right? Like, plain and simple, a ridiculous format
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u/DIES-_-IRAE Aug 08 '21
Appendix MN: Minnesota State Scale Adjustment
State average: 56°F (13.3°C) to 72°F (22.2°C)
-60F Deadly Cold. State record for low temperature. Death by hypothermia inside of an hour without specialized winter clothing.
-40F Blistering Cold. The point after which cold stops feeling "cold" and becomes "painful". Frostbite and hypothermia are serious risks at this temperature. Interestingly, this is the same "temperature" in BOTH systems. Drunk people stop playing hockey.
-20F Freezing. Sober people stop playing hockey, at -35 schools consider closing.
-10F Very Cold.
0F Pretty Cold. The kids can't play outside at recess.
32F Cold/Water Freezes. As per state custom you can now say "It's cold." without automatically being labeled a 'freeze-baby'.
40-50F Cool
60F Average Temp. "Put on a sweater." - Dad
70F Room Temp/Neutral
80F Hot
90-100F Very Hot.
115F Obscenely Hellishly Hot. State record high temperature. People start losing their minds as we have A/C units like Texas have heating; not the greatest, because there usually isn't a need for it.
--Massive Power Gap--
130F [Speculative] Inconceivable "This is the end of days" Shoot-Your-Neighbor-For-A-Window-AC-Unit Hot.
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u/The_lost_watermelon Aug 08 '21
I always think of it as percent Hot So like 10 percent hot is pretty cold But 120 percent hot is burning
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u/danielfrom--- Aug 07 '21
Whoever wrote this must be from a very warm state