Ice cold -- 0 degrees.
Who wants Ice at 32 degrees? That's a ridiculous temperature to say "It's freezing out there -- it's 32 degrees!!"
If I want someone telling me it's cold, I want it to be sub-zero. Not sub-32.
You know I'm right.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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I'd probably like to have ice cream at 32 degrees
Normal body temperature is 36 degrees. Ice-cream at that temperature would be a pool of liquid :)
No, when it's 36 C outside, the commenter above would like to eat ice cream
That's correct, thanks
The exact temperature of 32 is not usually that important when it comes to weather because the amount of heat in the ground or water and the difference in temperature of the atmosphere impact whether or not snow or ice forms. It's not like everything freezes over when the temperature dips below 32. You need the lows for the day to go into the 20s usually.
But I'm not ice.
0-100 degrees F is "very cold" to "very hot" for a human. Your familiarity with base ten can take over from there.
Celsius is better because the portrait of Anders Celsius on his wikipedia page has the same expression I make when someone says that Fahrenheit is better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Celsius#/media/File:Headshot_of_Anders_Celsius.jpg
The real kicker is the temperature relative to what you're used to, tell and Australian is 15c outside and they will put on a jumper, tell a Scotsman it's 15c outside and they will strip down to their shorts and go swimming.
Time of year, too. In spring, we're so eager to get out and enjoy the warmth, but the same temperature in fall is just a sign of what is coming.
Fahrenheit is better because 69 is nice and zero has far more chill.
Fun fact:
You can vape weed between 420° Kelvin and 420° Fahrenheit.
You can smoke it at 420° Celsius.
I know I'm literally taking the bait with this, but the argument about saying it's 10s in Celsius Vs it's 70s in Fahrenheit makes no sense, because you would just say the number or high/low/mid 10s and that tells you everything you need to know.
Nobody says "it's in the 10s" in Celsius. We just say "it's between 12 and 16". We don't have to shorten every thing like in the US. We even have words with many syllables. They don't scare us.
Hahaha. No, but seriously, we gotta switch to metric. I hate owning 2 sets of tools.
Also, it's easier to think, "Oh, 10mm is slightly too small. I need 11mm." instead of "Oh, 69/420ths of a barley corn is too small. I guess I need 70/420ths?? Wait, they don't make that size? Oooh, nooooooo!!!! AAH!"
Midwest: "what are you talking about, of course 10 degrees is shorts weather! Oh... You mean Celsius?"
I'd like to clarify that Celsius is used with commas.
My temperature sensors don't read rounded numbers, they read 21.7 for example. A forecast uses rounded numbers because it's a ballpark anyway.
Doesn't that make Celsius more granular than Fahrenheit on the same range?
I contest that using the word "degree" sort of suggests you've already granularized it to the point that a whole number represents the smallest division you find necessary.
Like I shouldn't have to fraction your fractions to get to something useful on a practical level.
Contest what you want, I can see what my thermometer reads right now and it says 20.7°C.
As an American engineer, I see the value in Celsius over Fahrenheit, so I've been slowly changing all of my references to temperature, like my weather app, the weather units in my car, etc. to Celsius.
Didn't take that long to get used to it as long as you associated different weather "feels" with multiples of 10.
0 °C = obviously cold and I need pants and an overcoat
10 °C = chilly on a wet rainy day, pants and maybe a sweater or jacket
20 °C = comfortable, shorts and a long sleeve if cloudy or short sleeve if sunny
30 °C = hot, definitely shorts and a T-shirt
Americans are resistant to change though, so I don't expect this to take off anytime soon.
You left off -10 and -20. Those happened this week where I am 💀
Shouldn't we have a measure that combines temperature with humidity to tell what to wear?
Or just tell me straighter than that.
Waterproof jacket, jumper, or t-shirt? That's all I need.
I don't need to know about the lower half because England basically never goes outside of "acceptable shorts weather" now.
if you make your judgment based on the 10s then you're using a bloated scale, like those mobile games where characters have 6 digit hp and you try to beat them with 4 digit damage numbers.
I've wondered: do celsius thermostats normally have half-degree increments? In my house I found that a single degree F matters to people, and for celsius it's too big of a swing.
Some even do full range tenths and not just 0.5s.
Yep. Mine do anyway.
All these linear temperature scales. Does anyone know any logarithmic temperatures scales? Asking for the kid of a friend.
I say we abandon numbers entirely for air temps in non-scientific environments.
Frigid -> freezing -> cold -> chilly -> mild -> warm -> hot -> scalding.
Everyone reading this knows exactly what those temps are regardless of numbering system.