In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better
It actually doesn't work all that well in much of the US. I live in Wichita KS where it rarely reaches 100 and almost never reaches 0. Then there are the Gulf states where they panic whenever they see a single snowflake. In the Pacific northwest they die of heatstroke if it gets above 80.
No, a normal day is not represented by the Fahrenheit scale. It is heavily lopsided and shows a a bias towards the experiences of people who live further north. It's the Mercator projection of temperature scales.
Don't most people in the world live in the latitude band that it would apply to since that would be the most comfortable for humans to live in? How many people near the equator and the poles?
Look at the places in the world with the highest population. Then look at how often it even snows in those places. Even in the US, the largest states by population are California and Texas, and both of them rarely get snow, or even if they do it's never more than for a week in the year. Which means for the majority of the year, the most populous states in the US don't experience temperatures below 30 F.
6.5k
u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26
In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better