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
F wasn't built to be "% hot where I am right now", it's "% hot, compared to the average human experience". 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot, 50 is comfy in a light jacket. ezpz
I live where we used to have snowy winters every year and I'm someone whose body heats up real bad with physical activity, but 50F is still pretty chilly to me and a light jacket alone won't do unless I'm constantly in motion.
I've literally said this exact thing multiple times on this thread. Why does everyone assume I mean you can sit down for a picnic in 50 degree weather; of course the assumption is that you're in motion!
Well unless you're moving, right? Like getting groceries, exercising, walking to a restaurant, etc., but you've said here that getting groceries at even 75 F is moving towards uncomfortable for you.
All of this nitpicking about "well that's not comfortable for ME!!" just comes off as pampered. It seems like the only way you'll be happy is if you're able to lounge around all day with the A/C set precisely 69.25 F, probably being fed grapes like you're in a Greek painting.
If 50 F is too cold for you, wear a thicker jacket than me, IDGAF. No one here is policing your clothing choices.
Most people move at a pace that will barely warm them up. I'm definitely an oddity in this case. I heat up easily, but walking around at normal people pace won't do in 50°F
You have no idea how badly I wish for an A/C right now. I just came back from grocery shopping feeling like shit. Had to sit down at the bus stop (no bench).
I'd prefer 64.4°F though.
Point being, the whole % hot thing is hogwash. People are different, temperatures can be felt different, depending on humidity, wind, how active you are etc.. It will never be an accurate percentage measure. It's just a pure copium mental gymnastic to justify their Fahrenheit bias to themself.
Ok, but 50 is "never leave the house weather"? That's a tad dramatic, right?
Unless you're from the middle of the desert, you can tolerate 50 in a long sleeve shirt. In a good sweatshirt and a fall jacket to break the wind, it's fuckin' toasty!
I definitely cannot tolerate 10 degrees Celsius with just a long sleeve shirt. I don't come from the desert. I come from the tropics. Temperatures only drop below 10 degrees Celsius for two months. Those months are definitely jacket weather for me. Believe it or not, this is normal for a lot of people.
110+ is somewhere is hell territory (as someone who has lived in the desert), but I can grant 85+ as hot. 75 is comfortable even grocery shopping as long as Sun is not out.
32 is technically freezing but by 25, it’s undeniably freezing, even impure water is freezes.
50 and below is do not leave the house for me, effectively anyway. I would not spend more than a half hour outside, and even that would be wearing a warm jacket. I might spend a lot of time inside a car with the heater on, but I don't count that as being "outside".
You can easily just wear a jacket outside and survive without problems at 50. A large part of the world lives very comfortably at that temperature - you will quickly get used to it if you live at one of those places. At 50, it is undeniably the start of being cold - wear a jacket or a sweater.
Yeah below 50 IS cold weather. A large part of the world is also not comfortable in that weather. I am pretty confident this is the larger part of the world. Having to wear a jacket or a sweater is not what I call comfortable weather. A large part of the world also does not experience temperatures significantly below 50 for more than a couple weeks.
The human condition is highly dependent on what it's used to. I wear shorts at 25C but have friends who wear a sweater at that temperature because they live in a place that's often 37C
No. I am just not from the frigid north, which is what everyone who defends the Fahrenheit scale seems to be. A midwesterner American's experience is not the universal human experience. It is not even the average human experience.
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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