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I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit… Maybe a title change would be welc

I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit… Maybe a title change would be welcome.

nemo1618 5y ago
Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't sure where to get the data.
- rosetremiere 5y ago
  My turn to be sorry! I had to blow some steam off and hadn't thought about the fact that the person behind the page might read my comment. Cheers on your work :)
- tony_cannistra 5y ago
  The ECMWF Reanalysis is a great option! https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5 https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-...
- loloquwowndueo 5y ago
  Temp in Celsius doesn’t need getting any extra data :)
  - daotoad 5y ago
    Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
    - airstrike 5y ago
      Uuuhhh, no? More like freezing is 0C and there are 1,000 meters in a kilometer
    - mannerheim 5y ago
      What's so special about the boiling point of water?
      - loloquwowndueo 5y ago
        defining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense. Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.
        mannerheim 5y ago
        Regardless, I don't see how in practice it matters that water boils at a hundred degrees. E.g., never when boiling water have I set a temperature.
        loloquwowndueo 5y ago
        You must not care about the quality of your coffee then.
        mannerheim 5y ago
        I'm not sure what you mean. I'm by no means an aficionado, but I've had coffee via automatic drip brew, Keurig, French press, even boiled some water in a small pot and had it like tea a few times. But I've never had to deal with the temperature personally, and that seems rather niche anyway.
        loloquwowndueo 5y ago
        Thanks for proving my point.
- austinjp 5y ago
  That's fine, but maybe mention US-only in the submission title?
- rakkhi 5y ago
  Upvote for other countries. Try this for Australia :) http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#xml http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#xml
Aeolun 5y ago
Don’t feel bad. I had exactly the same reaction. “Who uses fahrenheit for something like this?”, “Oh, it’s US only.”

I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit… Maybe a title change would be welcome.

nemo1618 5y ago

Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't sure where to get the data.

rosetremiere 5y ago
My turn to be sorry! I had to blow some steam off and hadn't thought about the fact that the person behind the page might read my comment. Cheers on your work :)
tony_cannistra 5y ago
The ECMWF Reanalysis is a great option! https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5 https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-...
loloquwowndueo 5y ago
Temp in Celsius doesn’t need getting any extra data :)
- daotoad 5y ago
  Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
  - airstrike 5y ago
    Uuuhhh, no? More like freezing is 0C and there are 1,000 meters in a kilometer
  - mannerheim 5y ago
    What's so special about the boiling point of water?
    - loloquwowndueo 5y ago
      defining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense. Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.
      - mannerheim 5y ago
        Regardless, I don't see how in practice it matters that water boils at a hundred degrees. E.g., never when boiling water have I set a temperature.
        loloquwowndueo 5y ago
        You must not care about the quality of your coffee then.
        mannerheim 5y ago
        I'm not sure what you mean. I'm by no means an aficionado, but I've had coffee via automatic drip brew, Keurig, French press, even boiled some water in a small pot and had it like tea a few times. But I've never had to deal with the temperature personally, and that seems rather niche anyway.
        loloquwowndueo 5y ago
        Thanks for proving my point.
austinjp 5y ago
That's fine, but maybe mention US-only in the submission title?
rakkhi 5y ago
Upvote for other countries. Try this for Australia :) http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#xml http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#xml

Aeolun 5y ago

Don’t feel bad. I had exactly the same reaction. “Who uses fahrenheit for something like this?”, “Oh, it’s US only.”