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ITT: Water requires over double of all the hot just to boil.
In that case, you should change the scale to match how hot/cold it actually gets outside. In many parts of the world, and even in North America, it regularly goes below 0F or above 100F.
“How hot it feels” is highly subjective. I would absolutely melt at 100F but feel fine at 0F, and nothing feels colder than those rainy windy days when it’s 5C outside.
And if you only ever used it for describing weather, that would be an argument to make. But you use it everywhere, I mean just search for the term “cooking temperature” on Google images and you’ll see a bunch of nonsense.
But even using it just for weather, this is still not a good argument, as the perspective of hot and cold is very very subjective, and changes constantly. To me, an outside temperature if 10C feels freezing cold in September, but it’s reasonably warm in January. Or an inside temperature of 24C will feel amazingly cold on a 42C July day, but super warm on a -10C December night.
The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?
Celsius is percentage boiling.
How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?
Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32
Or pull the trash cans to the curb!
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
i tell them i use a 100 hour clock. Day starts at 0 at ends at 100. They see how much better it is and they have an existential crisis. And then everyone clapped
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‘99:
Ummmm? Well technically you can describe celsius as 0 being 0% boiling and 100 being 100% boiling with water. And it actually works pretty well because the hotter it is, the more it evaporates. Tho pretty sure its not linear and also thats a stupid way of saying it anyways.
Except what is cold/hot varies from person to person.
Water is more consistent.
37 isn’t really hot yet. It’s warm. It’s around 50 degrees when it starts feeling too hot to touch.
37 isn’t really hot yet.
Tell me how you feel when your body heats up just a bit, from 37 to 40. Sweating? Shivering? Hot and cold waves?
As always, it depends on the context and on the individual
These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don’t care at all what anyone uses.
I like how they claimed Fahrenheit made sense by relating it to a scale between 0 and 100 because a grade divided into 100 pieces (centigrade) is a system that is easy to handle. If only there was a unit of measurement that was already like that.
No they’re relating average earth temperature/weather to a centigrade scale, instead of relating liquid water to one.
It is not average Earth temperature though.
Average is one number, not a range. Do you mean standard deviation?
and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot
I have to be that guy: it’s K, not °K.
Thank you for your service.
We need a new scale where 0 is 0K and 100 is the temperature of the big bang.
May I suggest calling it the Morphius scale?
“The temperature will be 1 °M today”
“In the beginning it was 100 degrees Morphius”Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
That fear is them realizing they are trapped talking to a clown who proudly is grinding 100 hours at work every week.
0 hot? So what about when it’s -40?
that’s when the two scales collide…
-40FC…
‘fucking cold’
Can confirm this is accurate.
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
0% hot = 100% cold
so
-40% hot = 140% cold ❄️
If it gets hot this year I’m going to go off to my partner about how its almost 0% cold.
Sounds like girl math. 😜
funnily, the same as -40 C
Yes, intentional.
Humans shouldn’t exist in zones outside 0-100
I understand you’re being sassy but below zero you do start saying “no but seriously, how can it be this cold?” Zero is about the lower limit before temperature stops being distinguishable and just becomes cold
Spoken like somebody who doesn’t experience freezing degrees very often.
The feeling of cold weather is entirely subjective. A Brazilian from Bahia will wear a winter coat and feel cold at 20C, but somebody from northern Canada would be going out for a swim in their shorts.
Which is why any attempt at using “oh it means cold percentage” or “oh below zero it just feels the same” is extremely dumb and a easily refutable attempt at saving a bad scale.
Yup. We were at an event and it was a hot weekend, mid 30’s C, sunny, so we were in shorts and staying in the shade. My sister, who had just come back from a tour in Afghanistan, was wearing a sweater and shivering.
I grew up in the Northeastern US. I lived in the Southeastern US for a few years. My first year there it was 65F in March and everyone was still in their winter coats with scarves and hats commenting that they couldn’t wait for spring and I was in a t shirt with sweat literally rolling down my arms and face and I remember saying “wait, this isn’t spring?”
Sweat rolling down your arms at 65 degrees?
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There is a BIG difference between 0F, -20F and -40F. And as someone that has worked in areas that has often seen -60F, -20F feels like spring in comparison, the local Inuit wouldn’t even wear a jacket at 0F.
It is funny how 40 in the fall sees most folks bundling up with everything they have, and 40 the spring is shorts and sandals weather.
I don’t stop wearing shorts until it’s about 0F out or the wind is insane. Not to like shovel the driveway or anything being out for extended periods, but going out shopping or whatever is fine. Today was 0 with a -20 windchill and my Costco run was done in shorts, a sweatshirt, and a baseball cap.
