• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    When it comes to Fahrenheit, there is some merit to the idea - 0 to 30 is a small scale compared to 0 to 100, and unlike Imperial vs. Metric, Celcius has no base 10 system that makes any more sense than Fahrenheit does. . The opposite is true of kilometers and miles - kilometers is more refined since each unit is a shorter distance.

    I’d prefer the Metric system, but Farenheit over Celcius for temperature measurement.

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      5 months ago

      The fixed points (for 0 and 100) are much more logical though and can be used to accurately recreate the scale anywhere (well… it’ll be slightly off on higher altitude since boiling temperature changes but it’s still not far off).

      0°C = water freezes (= it’s snowing)

      100°C = water boils

      meanwhile:

      0°F = the coldest night Mr Fahrenheit experienced, thinking it couldn’t get any colder than that

      100°F = Mr Fahrenheit’s own body temperature (he had a slight fever apparently)

      How would you recreate that??

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        5 months ago

        The temperature of water boiling is not a useful metric when it comes to the weather, as it’s extremely far outside of where humans can live. Science uses Celcius standard, and that seems to work fine, but I see no reason why we should use it for the weather.

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          The temperature of ice melting, on the other hand, is hugely important for weather. 0 point is placed at a very important spot as far as weather observations go.

          Can’t say that of Fahrenheit.

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              5 months ago

              The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.

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          5 months ago

          I think we can agree that the freezing point is super important when it comes to the weather.

          So where would you place the second mark (you have to define two spots) so it “makes sense for the weather” (I don’t see how it makes less sense for the weather than Fahrenheit, at least Celsius tells you if it’ll snow or not while Fahrenheit tells you nothing) while still making sure that it can easily be recreated?