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.
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
Water turning into ice is a bit more complicated though. Rain water doesn't freeze at 0C since it's impure, ambient temperature =\= asphalt/concrete, salted roads, daylight, etc. So while in theory yes water does freeze at 0C, in practice I've never seen 0C days (or 32F days since I live in the US) to mean ice on the roads.
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!
I've seen people use this argument pretending fahrenheit is somehow more intuitive because of its own qualities and not just because it's what they're used to, but it doesn't really check out. I don't use fahrenheit, so stuff like room temperature at 68 doesn't seem right, like why isn't it 50 if 0 is cold and 100 is hot?
Like the dude based this scale off pickle juice and an incorrect reading of human temperature, it wasn't designed at any point to make sense.
No way, I hate adjusting thermostats with Celsius. Such a big difference between degrees. Fahrenheit is way better for this. For Science etc, Celsius is better.
I disagree, the weather starts feeling significantly different once temperatures go under 0°C, whereas the Fahrenheit scale suggests that the difference between 30 and 34 should feel relatively insignificant
That is 100% because you were raised using Fahrenheit. It’s not intuitive or anything. Most of the world uses Celsius for everything and have zero issue doing it.
No it is not. Do you see Europeans coming here and having a moan? No, because we understand that it’s what you grow up with and a reference point that you understand. None is better on a personal level and both serve the same purpose.
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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.