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For normal weather, 0°F to 100°F is easier to understand than -17°C to 38°C. Just like 0°C for freezing water and 100°C for boiling water is easier to remember. It’s just how our brains work. We like nice round numbers. Plus, there’s a higher fidelity between 0 and 100 than between -17 and 38.
Easier to understand FOR YOU.
There is a reason only 3 countries is the whole world use the imperial system of measurement.
What is easier than “over 100 dangerous; under 0 dangerous”?
Below 0 ice, above 0 no ice
That goes in line with what I was saying. F makes sense for weather, and not much else. C makes sense for states of water, and not much else.
F is just random and some people are used to it, and then try to assign meaning to the random points. Why should the temperature of a horse have any relation with the weather?
It doesn’t, but it just at happens that those two arbitrary temperatures are very good lower and upper bounds for safe weather.