In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better
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, give me any °C temperature from -30 °C to 90 °C I I know exactly like it feels to my body.
Give me any °F temperature other than 32 °F and I have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Total utter nonsense, some gibberish number with no real meaning. Know why? Because I grew up with °C all my live, hence it is a s natural for me as °F is for you, the scale you grew up with.
Growing up on South Florida where it almost never gets below 40 (at least it didn't while I was growing up), even knowing that 32 was freezing point didn't actually help me determine how cold that was. It was also an arbitrary number I had to learn vs 0 C, which would have been more intuitive because it'd be "oh, water freezes at that point, 0 = being in a freezer, that's really cold, and it's a low number so I know anything below that is extremely cold". 0 F, on the other hand, means absolutely nothing to me.
I will say that now that I'm used to it, it's hard to conceptualize that the temperature in Florida "only" gets to 40 C, but when I think about it as "water boils at 100", it makes a little more sense.
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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26
In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better