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Ah yes, it's in the 30s. That sounds.... lovely? too warm? (startrek.website)

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

75 is only close to tshirt weather?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Acclimatization is a whole thing. I remember thinking 65F / 18C was cold once upon a time, then I moved north and now only bother putting on a jacket if it's below 40F / 5C or so (but now I start seriously suffering above 85F / 30 C where that used to be my ideal temp).

People who pretend certain temps are objectively not that cold or hot have never moved from one climate to another, I think. The person you replied to must be from a hot area.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I spent a week in the Rockies and when I got home, my house at 24°C was just too damn hot I just drank ice water and sat in my underwear.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep. I lived in the middle East and SE Asia combined for around 12 years, and while occasionally it was too much, in general I loved the heat and rarely said "its too hot", I moved back to the UK 3 years ago, in June. Hated it, was cold all the time. Now when it's more than 25c / 77F on a calm and clear day I'm boiling and can't sleep at night (barely anyone in the UK has ac at home).

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It really depends on what your body is acclimated to. When I lived in Texas it felt a little too cool to be t-shirt weather. Now that I've been living in Seattle for years, it's safely within the realm of t-shirt weather.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is pretty good! I'll keep this in mind next time I'm in the US.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

0 = no heat

Kelvin and Rankine would like a word.

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[-] agamemnonymous 12 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Me setting my thermostat to 50 in winter:

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

People contain water

[-] jballs 8 points 10 months ago

If you are regularly encountering weather that is boiling the water in your body, you may want to consider moving to a nicer climate.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

How frequently does the water in a human boil?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The main Fahrenheit I know is -40F.

Mostly because its also -40C.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Wait euro ovens are in Fahrenheit as well? I just thought it was our identity crisis measurements in Canada.

[-] CanadianCarl 3 points 10 months ago

Canadians usually follow this. It isn't 100% correct, but close enough.

[-] LucyLastic 3 points 10 months ago

Nah, mines in Celsius ... the poster above probably has an old British oven, they had a lot of hold-outs for imperial measurements.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

0 freezing

10 cold

20 nice

30 hot

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same the other way around. I (european) regularly read about "100 degrees weather" somewhere in the US and my first thought always is "damn, that's as hot as boiling water".

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

0 is freezing (32F)
10 is cold (50F)
20 is nice (68F)
30 is hot (86F)

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Toronto is basically due east of where I live. 10C is pretty nice out. Hell, sometimes I don't wear a coat when its 0C

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if it's not super humid 0C can be pretty ok

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

We all know "that guy".

https://youtu.be/-oOlAGKBXnA?si=7O0ksF0xR2Nd9_IH

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Daytime 10c is shorts and tshirt. Nighttime 10c is shorts and light hoody.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

40 is unbearable

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's celcius

Water:

0° - freezes

100° - boils

Me:

10° - freezes

30° - boils

Why can't I be more like water?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

You're 70% of the way there!

[-] CanadianCarl 5 points 10 months ago

So you are neither Canadian nor Australian.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I talked with an american so i of course used ammo (9mm) as a scale

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

How many Bald Freedomeagles is that?

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

In Minnesota yes. In Florida no.

[-] cloudy1999 9 points 10 months ago

Well, double dumbass on you!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

In numerics we have decimal points for that :)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

We don't even need that for weather. There's not that much of a difference between 21 and 22 C, and anyway with wind and shade you can quickly have a difference of a few degrees.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I very rarely hear anyone refer to air temperature with a decimal though.

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[-] Klystron 7 points 10 months ago

Double it and add 32

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Low 30s °C can either be okay or absolutely horribly hot depending on stuff like humidity, cloud coverage and wind.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Also what you're used to.

Australia? Normal day. Norway? Catastrophic.

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