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.
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 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.
My wife told me to go look at the thermometer outside and the needle was pointing to 0. She asked "what temperature is it?" I said, "uh.. there isn't one."
This is pretty good! I'll keep this in mind next time I'm in the US.
Sorry but that makes no sense to me.
Is 0% hot no extra heat, like perfect room temp or is it zero heat, the death of all life?
What does 100% hot mean?
You arranged it for yourself to make sense of it, but no need to rationalise it. It's only good, cause you're used to it, or doesn't "feel more human" than Celsius.
I've been in a sauna with 100°C ( what's that? 250°F?) It's doable, but that's probably my personal max. So 100°C air temp is now 100%? Mmmh doesn't really work that great.
All in all, temperature unit is just data points, the interpretation is individual. Fahrenheit is not "more suitable for humans" than any other unit.
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.
Me setting my thermostat to 50 in winter:
The main Fahrenheit I know is -40F.
Mostly because its also -40C.
Wait euro ovens are in Fahrenheit as well? I just thought it was our identity crisis measurements in Canada.
Canadians usually follow this. It isn't 100% correct, but close enough.
Nah, mines in Celsius ... the poster above probably has an old British oven, they had a lot of hold-outs for imperial measurements.
I don't know if they generally are, but ours is lol
Fahrenheit is nice for the ten degree ranges when talking. "Tomorrow it will be in the 70s". The entire range of the 70-79 is fairly nice and similar. Every ten degree range is meaningful and different. "Tomorrow it's in the 90s! :("
Having used a lot of Celsius and metric in college sciences, they don’t bother me so much. But when it comes to certain applications, I’m more used to farenheight. For example temperature as it relates to human comfort.
Like I know 35 c is hot, and anything in the 40+ is miserable. But I also know I prefer temperatures to be in the 72-75 range for optimum comfort and thus have to do a bit of math if I need that in Celsius.
0 is freezing (32F)
10 is cold (50F)
20 is nice (68F)
30 is hot (86F)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
Here's celcius
Water:
0° - freezes
100° - boils
Me:
10° - freezes
30° - boils
Why can't I be more like water?
You're 70% of the way there!
So you are neither Canadian nor Australian.
Is this "celcius" a friend of you or what??
This is why Fahrenheit is great. It's a 0-100 scale for the temperatures humans typically experience with bonus off-the-charts temperatures for when it's particularly miserable
Well, double dumbass on you!
In Minnesota yes. In Florida no.
Cause 30C is warm but 39C is heat stroke. Bigger range than 80-89F (warm to really warm), 90-99F (hot to really hot), 100F+ (heat stroke hot).
Double it and add 32
