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Seriously you don’t see any difference in defining hot weather as 1/3 of the boiling temperature of water? Try to do that in Fahrenheit and you have to do somet
by tigershark 7y ago
Seriously you don’t see any difference in defining hot weather as 1/3 of the boiling temperature of water?
Try to do that in Fahrenheit and you have to do something crazy like (212 - 32) / 3 + 32, and I’m not even 100% sure that is correct...
And I guess that for you is much better to remember that at 32 F is very dangerous to drive outside rather than at 0. I really can’t understand how can someone would advocate for maths gimmicks when you have a much easier solution that is even an international standard (or to be precise it’s extremely easy to convert to and from that standard)
- baseballdork 7y ago"1/3 of the boiling temperature of water" is just as arbitrary as "32". Generally speaking, you get freeze warnings and black ice warnings when necessary instead of checking to see whether or not the current temp is literally below the freezing point of water. I think OP was just saying that it's good enough for a layperson to use day-to-day.
- saagarjha 7y ago> Seriously you don’t see any difference in defining hot weather as 1/3 of the boiling temperature of water? This comparison is utterly meaningless to me, and I say this as someone who prefers to use Celsius.
- likpok 7y agoIn Fahrenheit, hot is 100 and cold is 0. In Celsius, hot is 30 and cold is -10. When talking about it for what you're wearing and subjective experience, Celsius is a little more awkward and compressed. Sure, scientifically celsius is more useful, but how often does that overlap with the weather?
- tigershark 7y agoNo, cold is 0 in Celsius. You risk your life in icy roads at 0.