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.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    The thing is that Fahrenheit is basically arbitrary. From what I read in Wikipedia, 0 is the temperature of some harebrained brine solution, and 100 the approximate temperature of the human body.

    Temperatures may make more sense to you because of habit, but the references are nonsensical.

    Knowing that 0 is where water freezes, and that 100 is where water boils, is a way more useful reference in general.

    I know that 18 is a baseline comfort temperature, 30 is nice hot weather, anything above 38 is damn hot. normal body temp around 37…

    We usually remember reference temperatures in whatever scale we use, but the basis of Centigrade seems way more logical to me.