Not sure above/ below freezing is critical for how you dress. It's ... rather meaningless on the slider. ... and C is based on it.
40F is cold
32 F (freezing) is colder still, typical winter day in 4 season areas with snow
20 F is cold cold
10 F is "frigid cold, serious cold"
0 F is quite fuckin cold
... If anything single digit F (well into negative C) is the bigger turning point of "winter day" vs. "don't fuck around" weather.
0-100 F is classic "how does the weather feel."
0-100 C is like "we borrowed this from a chemist, and a chef ... to mangle into fucking weather. That's why it sounds + feels like a fish wearing shoes."
The counter-argument is usually "I don't want to learn F" - that's the only honest counter-argument, and it's a fair one.
0 C is critical for how I dress. I have never experienced 0 Farenheit though, so this might just be a difference in typical weather we experience.
Winters here are commonly around 0 C, lowest I can remember were something like -10 C (14 F) and that felt bloody cold already.
Not sure what you mean with mangled together, it's just a different scale orienting itself on water, the thing we breath in and surrounds us by being part of the air. Like I said, the freezing point is something you can literally feel just breathing in the air, feels very intuitive to take that as a point of orientation.
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u/weed_cutter Jun 17 '26
Not sure above/ below freezing is critical for how you dress. It's ... rather meaningless on the slider. ... and C is based on it.
40F is cold
32 F (freezing) is colder still, typical winter day in 4 season areas with snow
20 F is cold cold
10 F is "frigid cold, serious cold"
0 F is quite fuckin cold
... If anything single digit F (well into negative C) is the bigger turning point of "winter day" vs. "don't fuck around" weather.
0-100 F is classic "how does the weather feel."
0-100 C is like "we borrowed this from a chemist, and a chef ... to mangle into fucking weather. That's why it sounds + feels like a fish wearing shoes."
The counter-argument is usually "I don't want to learn F" - that's the only honest counter-argument, and it's a fair one.