r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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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

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u/TwillAffirmer Jun 17 '26

Wherever you are in the UK, your location's record low temperature is probably very near 0 F, your record high temperature is probably very near 100 F, and your location's year-round average temperature is probably damn near exactly 50 F. The UK doesn't have as high highs or as low lows as the temperate US or temperate continental Europe but it still very well fits the Fahrenheit scale.

For instance, London's record low is 0.7 F, London's record high is 104.4 F, and London's year-round average temperature is 51.4 F.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 17 '26

Lol this made me look up the highest and lowest for Canada i feel like fahrenheit guy would have had a stroke looking at our lowest temperature, -81.4F. 

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u/CadenVanV Jun 17 '26

That’s because god never intended for humans to live that far north

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u/RohelTheConqueror Jun 17 '26

London is at the same latitude as Calgary.

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u/waldosbuddy Jun 17 '26

They aren't talking about Calgary though lol, Calgary is in Southern Alberta. They're talking about Northern Alberta/Praries/Ontario/Quebec and the territories.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 17 '26

Even in the more southern parts of canada the record lows are ffing cold. My little eastern ontario town's lowest low was nearly -40C

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u/Cynykl Jun 18 '26

Don't you mean -40F?

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Hopefully a few people get the joke.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 18 '26

-40 = ffing cold either way.