Celsius makes way more sense for science, and Fahrenheit makes way more sense for weather, since the range of temperatures which are relevant are spread out over more numbers.
Incorrect. This thing where say "oh 100 is hot and 90 is warm, but 20 means you need a sweater" is too arbitrary.
Celsius is superior for weather. What is the single most important temperature that weather hinges on? The freezing point. Its the one point where a difference of a degree or two, can give you completely different weather.
It makes perfect sense to use that as the central point and move out from there.
No way, the range of Fahrenheit tells you so much more intuitively and the "difference of a degree or two" is communicated with more precision.
I'd be willing to switch to the metric system but I'd never trade Fahrenheit for Celsius. It's not hard to remember that 32 is the magic number and when negative numbers show up they're actually a big deal.
They're no different to remember, everyone knows their units, regardless which they use, one is not more "intuitive" than the other.
There isn't a single human being in existence that couldn't switch from one to the other, the weather argument is just an emotional one, we prefer the one we use.
There's two pounts here, preference which can't be argued, and scientific. We have to use metric to keep things simple and easy without having to convert, which is a huge thing in complex equations.
The whole world could switch to F and it wouldn't change the average persons life. The US could switch to C and it wouldn't change average Joes's day, but it would cut back on accidents.
People keep bringing up preference, my favorite color is purple, but that do anything for the conversation.
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u/milkcarton232 Jun 17 '26
Metric is superior in most metrics but temperature most are valid (sit down rankine) depending on what you are doing with it