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Water's freezing point is easily the single most important temperature there is when it comes to (outdoor) temperature. Essentially, it tells you whether travel
by scbrg 14y ago
Water's freezing point is easily the single most important temperature there is when it comes to (outdoor) temperature. Essentially, it tells you whether travelling is a deadly hazard or not. It tells you whether to expect snow or rain (which require quite different types of clothes). At least for those of us living in places with snow (as Celsius did), there's no more sensible thing to base the temperature scale on.
When it comes to boiling point, yeah I can give you that it's perhaps not as obviously the right thing. But it's the logical other end of the scale, and most of us do care about it several times daily, when cooking.
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- kibwen 14y agoEven when I'm cooking I never care about the temperature of my water in Celsius, especially since 1) its exact boiling point will vary depending on the air pressure of my present location, and 2) impurities in my tap water (as well as my standard metric pinch of salt) will alter the boiling point of the solution. So while I do really adore the metric system, the gp's argument still stands: Fahrenheit just so happens to coincidentally peg 100 somewhere near "too damn hot" and 0 to "too damn cold", and I don't see why civilians would benefit from mandating that weather reports be specified in Celsius (and I'd honestly rather prefer Kelvin than Celsius).