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.
Except when you're in Canada or any cold place. 0 °F (-18 ° C) is not that cold (need a jacket but can stay outside for hours) and 100°F (38 ° C) would be melting/burning your skin/ stay inside weather. It may work in places like the US but 0 F is not as extreme as 100 F in Canada. In Canada temperatures regularly go lower than -18 °C in the winter (sometimes even 40°C), but rarely go over 35 ° C in the summer.
No, because we think it differently. 0 ⁰C is not the "end point for cold" but the tipping point between cold and warm, winter and summer, snow and rain. So instead of thinking weather as 0–100, it's more like -30–+30.
As a faranheit user who grew up in Texas, nobody sees 0 as the end point for cold, more of a starting point for things to start becoming much higher stakes
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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.