3 ms·
I'm very pro-metric, but Fahrenheit is nice for "human scale" temperatures. 0F is "very cold" and 100F is "very hot", with plenty of precision in between. 0C, o
by JshWright 7y ago
I'm very pro-metric, but Fahrenheit is nice for "human scale" temperatures. 0F is "very cold" and 100F is "very hot", with plenty of precision in between. 0C, on the other hand, is "kinda chilly" and 100C is "Oh my god, I'm dying".
- arethuza 7y agoI'm not convinced - even in the UK which has a mixture of mostly metric and some Imperial units in common usage all temperatures are in C and I've never heard anyone complaining about it. As an example of this weird mixture: today I drove 48 miles at 60 or 70 mph to walk 20km up a mountain that is 975m high because it is over 3000 ft high.
- IgorPartola 7y ago0 in C is useful as the point of freezing. Very useful for determining things like whether rain is likely to turn to ice on roads, etc. I guarantee you that if you grew up using Kelvin, you’d be defending it right now. Spend a year looking at nothing but Celsius and you won’t need to go back: 0 and below is cold, 10 is spring time, 15 is jacket optional, 20-25 is warm, and 25+ is hot. That’s all you really need.
- JshWright 7y agoI'm not "defending" it... I'd be all for a wholesale switch to metric units. I simply said it's "nice" in one specific context.
- IgorPartola 7y agoAh that’s fair. Sorry I misread that.