We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.

However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    This is true, but Fahrenheit is directly based on climate norms (though thanks to global warming there’s an argument to be made for recalibration). For F, 0 is as cold as it typically gets most places, 100 is as hot as it typically gets most places. By that metric it’s a useful measure for climate temperatures. For that purpose, measured temperature norms make more sense than the freezing and boiling points of water.