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Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago (26 children)

Fahrenheit: how hot humans feel

Celsius: how hot water feels

Kelvin & Rankine: how hot atoms feel

[–] yata 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah, this gets repeated (by Americans) every time a discussion about temperature measuring systems comes up, but it is complete nonsense. The vast majority of Earth's population are completely fine with measuring how hot they feel in celsius, it is only people who are unaccustomed to that system who thinks it is somehow unqualified to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

American who lives in a country that uses C now.

20=frickin cold 30=swampy ass 40=nope

Not enough degrees of separation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

20 isn’t cold at all, it’s perfectly warm.

10 is nippy, but you still warm up quick after a few minutes walking, and get sweaty if you’re working on something.

0 is cold enough for a couple layers. Jumper + jacket so you can take one off if you warm up too much.

-10 doesn’t feel that much different to 0.

-20 is time to put on a thicker coat over the jumper.

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