Usually people would mention their height in centimeters, such as 183 cm -- which is more precise than feet and inches. But that's not the point. Metric is "bet

Usually people would mention their height in centimeters, such as 183 cm -- which is more precise than feet and inches. But that's not the point. Metric is "better" because it's decimal and since you very often need to perform arithmetic on distances, having them in a format that is easy to do arithmetic on is a good thing. Unless you're doing physics, you'll never do arithmetic on temperatures, and therefore the ability to more intuitively describing the weather is much more valid. For the record, I'm European, and have no intuition of Fahrenheit temperatures. But the guy is actually making a valid point.