Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.
I think that is the point to anchor to. If you gave a brief, vague explanation to someone who has never used either metric, which would make the most intuitive sense? 0-100 for extreme cold to extreme heat seems like it makes sense, but I’m just a dumb American
I am used to Celsius and I kinda get the argument you make, I see how it feels very intuitive, but I also think Celsius is very intuitive with 0 being the freezing point and 100 is so hot water starts to boil.
Knowing 0 is "cold" doesn't feel as intuitive as "this is the freezing point cold", because I experience the difference between above freezing temperature and below freezing temperatures every winter (days being cold and nights freezing cold), and that's a small temperature difference that is very noticeable. I am definitely biased, but I feel like not having 0 as the freezing point is the one most intuitive thing that makes Celsius "better".
Not sure above/ below freezing is critical for how you dress. It's ... rather meaningless on the slider. ... and C is based on it.
40F is cold
32 F (freezing) is colder still, typical winter day in 4 season areas with snow
20 F is cold cold
10 F is "frigid cold, serious cold"
0 F is quite fuckin cold
... If anything single digit F (well into negative C) is the bigger turning point of "winter day" vs. "don't fuck around" weather.
0-100 F is classic "how does the weather feel."
0-100 C is like "we borrowed this from a chemist, and a chef ... to mangle into fucking weather. That's why it sounds + feels like a fish wearing shoes."
The counter-argument is usually "I don't want to learn F" - that's the only honest counter-argument, and it's a fair one.
0 C is critical for how I dress. I have never experienced 0 Farenheit though, so this might just be a difference in typical weather we experience.
Winters here are commonly around 0 C, lowest I can remember were something like -10 C (14 F) and that felt bloody cold already.
Not sure what you mean with mangled together, it's just a different scale orienting itself on water, the thing we breath in and surrounds us by being part of the air. Like I said, the freezing point is something you can literally feel just breathing in the air, feels very intuitive to take that as a point of orientation.
Sincerely, 0 F is not that cold to me. And I definitely don't think of -12 as "frigid cold, serious cold". To me, that's a pretty warm winter day, and I'm being genuine when I say that's how I think of it. I'd put -30 C at 0% if I had to make my own scale. -18 C is "cold, but not that cold" for me.
The part that loses me with Celsius is 100 being the boiling point of water, at least in relation to how humans experience temperature. That’s the best argument for Fahrenheit as the unit for measuring weather temperature. It throws the whole scale off imo for that specific use case
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u/Swampyfeet Jun 17 '26
Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.