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.

Fahrenheit

0 = Well below freezing, about as cold as it gets anywhere that isn't frozen year-round. Dress like you're climbing Everest.

25 = Just below freezing, very cold but not record breaking anywhere people own snow shovels. Bulky jacket and gloves.

50 = Cold to cool, depending on your baseline. Put on a thick sweater or a jacket.

75 = Perfect, slightly above room temperature. T-shirt and shorts.

100 = About as hot as it gets anywhere that isn't a desert. Tank top and sunscreen, and stay in the shade.

Why do I care about water boiling when we're talking about weather?

The main Fahrenheit I know is -40F.

Mostly because its also -40C.

0 freezing

10 cold

20 nice

30 hot

In the UK you think "Oh yeah, my great granny used to use those measurements!"

Canadian here... in spring, 10C is shorts and t-shirt weather, eh?

40 is unbearable

50 is death, tar sticks to your shoes, why am I outside?

5 is cold 10 is fresh 20 is warm 25 is hot 30 is too fucking hot

How many Bald Freedomeagles is that?

In numerics we have decimal points for that :)

Celcius really isn't that hard to get used to if you stop getting hung up on conversions and just live in it for a while. Faherenheit also isn't as hard to get used to as people meme it to be. It's all about what you've spent a significant enough time in to get the data points for how stuff feels to you.

Either scale would be second nature to anyone after a year in a new home. I made the change np. I never do conversion math, I just know what it feels like outside and can ballpark the number I remember having a similar feeling in the other place. It's really not a big deal and not worth all the internet yelling that goes on about it.

Celsius is easy, everything important is a nice and rounded number: -40°C is freezing point of vodka; -30°C is fucking cold; -20°C is cold but tolerable; -10°C is pleasant winter weather; 0°C is when roads get icy, better be careful; 10°C is pleasant autumn weather; 20°C is room temperature and pleasant spring/summer; 30°C is haaawwt; 40°C is you-must-be-shitting-me hot; 80 to 100°C is good sauna; 110°C is those-crazy-Finns sauna; 120°C is the-bloody-Russians-joined-the-sauna-party; 250°C is pizza oven; 1000°C is ceramics oven; 1500°C is steel smelting. Everything above use K instead; substract 273 to get C if you must.

Fahrenheit is a fucking mess where nothing makes sense and nothing is a rounded number.

Isn't the freezingpoint of water important for talking about the weather? I want to know when I have to expect snow and ice.

Nah it just makes sense to you because you grew up with it. I've used Celsius my entire life and Fahrenheit makes no sense whatsoever.

It just depends on what you are used to - Fahrenheit to you makes perfect intuitive sense, I however am fully used to Celsius and that makes perfect sense to me.

No argument here. Fahrenheit offers better granularity within the range of temps that humans are likely to experience.

People are stupid bags of mostly water