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I dunno about that - been metric all my life and I know the difference between 23 and 28 degrees C. Since it's something you generally grow up learning about, t

by liedra 15y ago

I dunno about that - been metric all my life and I know the difference between 23 and 28 degrees C. Since it's something you generally grow up learning about, the practical usability (by lay users) in terms of dealing with estimating temperatures is something that is picked up along the way too. Additionally, weather reports will usually qualify the temperatures (with things like "warm and sunny" or "hot" or whatever), which is needed regardless of measurement - 25 degrees C in humid conditions is a very different "feel" from 25 degrees C in dry conditions. Add in wind chill/warm factors and temperature by itself is not actually that useful by itself to determine the weather practically.

philwelch 15y ago
Everywhere I've lived, humidity is a feature of climate and not weather. If you live someplace dry, it's dry. Heat is a dry heat, cold is a dry cold. So you actually can take temperature as the most significant variable.
- liedra 15y ago
  I grew up in Sydney, Australia, where humidity is reasonably variable. And you can definitely feel it some days, definitely not others. You can see some graphs here: http://www.gids.nl/sydney/weather/ http://www.gids.nl/sydney/weather/ - notice how it fluctuates between about 25 and 100% humidity, particularly on the month-by-month graph.
  - philwelch 15y ago
    Wow! You're right, I didn't realize some places had that much variability in their humidity. Even over the course of a day it ranges quite a bit!
    - liedra 15y ago
      Glad I could help! Weather conditions are so different across the globe - I came last week from London where everyone was sweltering in 28 deg C heat to Sydney where 28 deg C was only just comfortable in a t-shirt, and I felt like I should take a jacket with me just in case it got a little chillier. I can only put that down to other aspects - humidity, wind, cloud cover, etc. rather than simply raw temperature.

by liedra 15y ago

philwelch 15y ago

Everywhere I've lived, humidity is a feature of climate and not weather. If you live someplace dry, it's dry. Heat is a dry heat, cold is a dry cold. So you actually can take temperature as the most significant variable.

liedra 15y ago
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, where humidity is reasonably variable. And you can definitely feel it some days, definitely not others. You can see some graphs here: http://www.gids.nl/sydney/weather/ http://www.gids.nl/sydney/weather/ - notice how it fluctuates between about 25 and 100% humidity, particularly on the month-by-month graph.
- philwelch 15y ago
  Wow! You're right, I didn't realize some places had that much variability in their humidity. Even over the course of a day it ranges quite a bit!
  - liedra 15y ago
    Glad I could help! Weather conditions are so different across the globe - I came last week from London where everyone was sweltering in 28 deg C heat to Sydney where 28 deg C was only just comfortable in a t-shirt, and I felt like I should take a jacket with me just in case it got a little chillier. I can only put that down to other aspects - humidity, wind, cloud cover, etc. rather than simply raw temperature.