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Correction. Minnesota gets temperatures from -20 to 100. Tomorrow has a high of 97. Definitely not an odd place for AC.
by Wilduck 15y ago
Correction. Minnesota gets temperatures from -20 to 100. Tomorrow has a high of 97. Definitely not an odd place for AC.
- Groxx 15y agoI was just about to call "BS" on that wimpy zero. Zero is brisk compared to some of the lows in and around Minnesota, and pushing near 100 isn't uncommon. Not every year, but many, certainly.
- genieyclo 15y ago0 deg F is a t-shirt jog here in Minnesota during the winter. Cold is -20 to -40 range. And within the last few weeks, we've had several days 90+ and 100+ deg F. There's a reason lots of the old people migrate with the ducks down south for winter.
- yaks_hairbrush 15y agoPretty much... I like to tell people that it's not really cold here until your snot starts freezing the instant you go outside. That tends to happen at 10-15 below zero (Fahrenheit).
- qq66 15y ago97 is not that hot. I've spent months in those temperatures without AC just drinking water. Almost everywhere, AC is truly a luxury.
- StavrosK 15y agoI just Googled 97 degrees, expecting some large temperature, and it's only 36 degrees! For comparison, it's 40 C here today. Stay out of the sun, sweat a little, you'll be fine. Arabs have it much worse.
- fiblye 15y agoHumidity's usually a bigger problem that the actual temperature. 100 degrees in drier parts of the southern US doesn't feel anywhere near as bad as 85 degrees in rainy towns up north.
- StavrosK 15y agoAh, yes, that would complicate matters somewhat... High humidity is unbearable in the heat.
- fhars 15y agoIt is approximately human body temperature. By design it should be slightly less, Farady intended 100 degrees to be the human body temperature but obviously suffered a light fever the day he took the measurment, so these days the human body has 96 degrees. 0 degrees Fahrenheit is defined to be the coldest it could conceivably ever be on the outside in winter, according to Faradays intuition when he decided that this is the coldest day ever. I don't know if he caught the fever during that measurement.
- sid0 15y agoFahrenheit was invented by a guy named Fahrenheit, not Faraday.
- gjm11 15y ago> Faraday Fahrenheit. (It doesn't seem to be true that he intended 100 degrees to be human body temperature. It's possible that he specifically wanted the difference between body temperature and freezing point to be (a power of 2) degrees.)
- stan_rogers 15y agoFarenheit's "body temperature" was the axillary (armpit) temperature, and he set it to 96 degrees (on average) when creating his scale. And yes, your supposition about the divisibility of key numbers is right.