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Burning Up (mander.xyz)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

We live on a water planet. The weather we care about is water.

If you look at the overnight low you probably want to know if frost was likely. Guess what Celcius temperature frost happens at.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That factoid makes celsius relevant for about 4 out of the 12 months, and humans lack the capacity to distinguish between 60-100 on the Celsius scale. Anything at those temperatures just feels like blisters.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The high end of 0 to 100 is nice for boiling, when I'm making beer at the boiling stage the number on the scale goes from somewhere below 25 to 100 and so the end point is obvious

    We boil water quite a lot, though we often aren't tracking the temperature

    Most of the time the temperature scale that's best is the one you know. I don't know of any case where Fahrenheit is objectively best (like Celcius is when water is involved) but I think the best argument for Celcius is it is used in science, so American scientists start a step behind all the others by having to learn a new system. Given neither have any great advantage I reckon it's worth America changing to make things better for American scientists

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