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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

European here! For me it's...

Celcius:

0 = Water freezes

100 = Water boils

Fahrenheit as far as I can tell:

~100 = Hot enough that it shows up on the news

~400-450 = Cooking, because our stove is in Fahrenheit for some unknown reason.

All other temperatures in F = no idea.

[-] DontMakeItTim@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can think of F as a “% hot” measurement for weather.

0 = no heat: getting dangerously cold for humans. 50 = half hot, half cold: wear long pants and a jacket. 75 = three quarters hot, getting close to t shirt weather. 100= fully hot: getting dangerous for humans.

Yes you can go over or under, but you can consider those to be extreme weather (120% hot!)

C is a measurement for water.

[-] richie510@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Fahrenheit is designed for humans. Celsius is in love with distilled water at sea level. Kelvin and Rankine are actually useful in math, science, and engineering.

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