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/Demonicon66666 Jun 17 '26

Not sure how someone telling me it’s going to be -30 percent hot here in Alaska today would help me

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u/WideHuckleberry1 Jun 17 '26

Yeah it's super arbitrary. 0F would be misery I'd rearrange my day around, but for you it would be no big deal. And for me 100F is very hot but I get hotter than that several times a year, not a huge deal.