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the fact that 20-30 points goes from freezing cold to death and destruction and fire is everything that's wrong with Celsius for weather.
F for weather C for chemistry K for astronomy
FCK one unit of measure.
In Celsius we at least have some leeway to adapt to the rising temperature of the Climate.
talk about your silver lining! Hey, we never really got to use 50 deg C in weather yet! Hype!
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They’re both made up numbers by humans 🤷
Farhenhiet and Celsius are equally made up. All measurement systems that we use on human scales are made up. And in this case, farhenhiet is actually just better. More granular and more useful on a day to day basis. Yeah, it doesn't have the freezing point of an arbitrary substance as the 0, nor the boiling point of an arbitrary substance at 100, but it has temperature you should immediately be concerned about coming into contact with outside of -20 and 120, temperatures you should be concerned about contacting outside of 10 and 90, and fairly normal weather between those two.
Fahrenheit: 0=cold, 50=mild, 100=hot
Celsius: 0=moderately cold, 50=dangerously hot, 100=dead
It makes no difference to me if the boiling point of water is 100°C or 212°F, if I see it boiling the pasta goes in.
In a scientific context Celsius and metric in general are superior without a doubt. But to live my life Fahrenheit works just fine.
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