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I can't think of a weather station that uses decimals, the forecasts and current temperature reports are almost always whole numbers. My Nest thermostat goes to
by astrodust 10y ago
I can't think of a weather station that uses decimals, the forecasts and current temperature reports are almost always whole numbers. My Nest thermostat goes to the closest 0.5°C because I guess why not, but even that seems overkill. Most systems go to the nearest whole degree.
Decimals are only for those who are making a fuss over nothing unless they're doing something that requires precision, like chemistry or in rare cases cooking.
There's no benefits to Fahrenheit. If you want to argue they're both arbitrary, fine, but the entire world uses °C, so get with the program.
- douche 10y agoGood luck getting the US to ever change. I'm personally on the side that Fahrenheit is more useful for day-to-day usage, because it has a range calibrated to the temperatures experienced in the part of the world I happen to live in. But it would take a whole generation to get people to change their frame of reference into Celsius, which isn't likely to happen, because the biggest interaction people have with temperature is the daily weather report, and it's primarily older people that watch the news. I could get on board with kilometers, if I had to, because the conversion factor is simple enough to do in your head (roughly 3/5), but trying to figure out what anything is in Celsius is just a little too complicated.
- posterboy 10y agoSo, 40 or 50 Degree for when it's dangerously hot is too hard to remember, just like 32 for freezing is somewhat easier than 37 for body temperature? Why let's just change the numeral base to 5, or use roman numerals for that matter. Then scientists can finally stop to convert some arcane unit to get to the Standard International Base Unit, ie. Kelvin. At least everyone gets to convert their numbers then and it's only a division by two, too. </rant>