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0C is cold 10C is cool 20C is nice 30C is warm 40C is hot

yen223 2y ago
Americans are helping the rest of world get used to 70 degrees being nice weather
happytoexplain 2y ago
I feel like most people (or most people I've known, in the US East) would probably compress that: 10C cold 15C cool 20C nice 25C warm 30C hot
steanne 2y ago
i've heard 0C is cold 10C is not 20C is warm 30C is hot which rhymes
- ericyd 2y ago
  Another rhyme 30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cold 0 is ice
  - Loranubi 2y ago
    non native speaker here: how does h"ot" and c"old" rhyme? it's a different 'o' sound and d/t is not exactly similar also.
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    - habinero 2y ago
      No worries, you're correct, those lines don't rhyme. It's pretty common for English poetry and songs to only rhyme every other line
    - steanne 2y ago
      they don't. in both cases, only every other line is rhyming. hot and not, ice and nice.
    - happytoexplain 2y ago
      To add to the other replies, here's the English page for rhyming schemes, which calls this pattern "XAXA". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme A more notable version of the same idea, which includes more unrhymed lines, is double dactyl (XXXA XXXA). Though this is more for poetry/limerick, and not for mnemonics.
jltsiren 2y ago
-30°C is too cold -20°C is uncomfortably cold -10°C is cold Around 0°C, temperature is not the issue. Water, snow, and ice are. +5°C is cool +10°C is nice and cool +15°C is nice +20°C is nice and warm +25°C is warm +30°C is hot +35°C is uncomfortably hot +40°C is too hot
- happytoexplain 2y ago
  I take it you're from somewhere a bit north :)
  - nick3443 2y ago
    -40C is when the snow squeaks like styrofoam and the line feeding my fridge water freezes
    - fragmede 2y ago
      -40 degrees is where you don't need to specify C or F because they're the same.
- kryptec 2y ago
  This is my range
- Perenti 2y ago
  Here in Brisbane we get wicked humidity, which means that even 27C can be disgusting. As a child I lived in the Wimmera, which is quite dry, and 35C was nice.
rufus_foreman 2y ago
Personally, I think 74F degrees is to hot, 72F is normal, 70F is too cool. What's all that in C?
smusamashah 2y ago
0c = very very cold 10c = very cold 15c = cold 20c = cool 25c = nice 30c = i want air blown at me 35c = need more air (roughly the same for 37) 40c = its hot, need cool air 45c+ = very hot, do something

Americans are helping the rest of world get used to 70 degrees being nice weather

I feel like most people (or most people I've known, in the US East) would probably compress that: 10C cold 15C cool 20C nice 25C warm 30C hot

steanne 2y ago

i've heard 0C is cold 10C is not 20C is warm 30C is hot which rhymes

ericyd 2y ago
Another rhyme 30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cold 0 is ice
- Loranubi 2y ago
  non native speaker here: how does h"ot" and c"old" rhyme? it's a different 'o' sound and d/t is not exactly similar also.
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  - habinero 2y ago
    No worries, you're correct, those lines don't rhyme. It's pretty common for English poetry and songs to only rhyme every other line
  - steanne 2y ago
    they don't. in both cases, only every other line is rhyming. hot and not, ice and nice.
  - happytoexplain 2y ago
    To add to the other replies, here's the English page for rhyming schemes, which calls this pattern "XAXA". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme A more notable version of the same idea, which includes more unrhymed lines, is double dactyl (XXXA XXXA). Though this is more for poetry/limerick, and not for mnemonics.

jltsiren 2y ago

-30°C is too cold -20°C is uncomfortably cold -10°C is cold Around 0°C, temperature is not the issue. Water, snow, and ice are. +5°C is cool +10°C is nice and cool +15°C is nice +20°C is nice and warm +25°C is warm +30°C is hot +35°C is uncomfortably hot +40°C is too hot

happytoexplain 2y ago
I take it you're from somewhere a bit north :)
- nick3443 2y ago
  -40C is when the snow squeaks like styrofoam and the line feeding my fridge water freezes
  - fragmede 2y ago
    -40 degrees is where you don't need to specify C or F because they're the same.
kryptec 2y ago
This is my range
Perenti 2y ago
Here in Brisbane we get wicked humidity, which means that even 27C can be disgusting. As a child I lived in the Wimmera, which is quite dry, and 35C was nice.

rufus_foreman 2y ago

Personally, I think 74F degrees is to hot, 72F is normal, 70F is too cool. What's all that in C?

smusamashah 2y ago

0c = very very cold 10c = very cold 15c = cold 20c = cool 25c = nice 30c = i want air blown at me 35c = need more air (roughly the same for 37) 40c = its hot, need cool air 45c+ = very hot, do something