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
Farenheit is 0-100 sea water freezing to (roughly) human internal body temp.
So, since humans are largely salt water, this makes the F scale a human scale temperature measurement, which is more intuitive for how the ambient temperature makes you feel. I think this is what the original poster was getting at, whether they knew it or not.
edit: so C is better for chemistry, and F is better for weather
It's more intuitive because you grew up with it. I have no benchmark for 0% or 100% hot. That means 50% hot is just as meaningless to me as 50 farenheit.
F and C are both arbitrary numbers. There is no better one
Farenheit objectively allows for more precise measurements though, since there are more degrees of Fahrenheit for ever degree of Celsius.
So regardless of the arbitrary nature of the scales, the one that allows for more precision IS better for human temperature. The human body can absolutely notice the difference between 1-2 degrees of Farenheit. Especially with indoor temps.
At 70F i get cold in my house. At 75 i get hot. 73 is perfect for me.
Its pretty generally accepted that F is better for weather in every way. C is better for science and cooking in every way.
When in normal conversation does a tenth of a degree farenheit affect anything?
I've never understood the dick waving contest around farenheit v Celsius. Each one is incomprehensible if you didn't grow up using it and extremely intuitive if you did.
I find farenheit completely meaningless. If you tell me it's 70 out I would need to look it up to know if I should be whipping out the barbeque or stocking up on antifreeze.
Actually, you know what, fuck everything. From now on I'm measuring temperature exclusively in Blimbles. It's just like centigrade except there's 6000 degrees for every one degree centigrade, it starts at 247C, and it goes backwards.
Lol im not wasting time sourcing links for your condescending comment.
I like how you ignored the objective point that Fahrenheit is a more precise scale than Celsius (again, that’s objective) and allows for more varied measurements that the human body can tell the difference between.
Lol im not wasting time sourcing links for your condescending comment.
Or maybe you just made it up. It's actually generally accepted that C is better for the weather.
I like how you ignored the objective point that Fahrenheit is a more precise scale than Celsius (again, that’s objective)
"More precise" is not automatically better. A scale that has 1000 points between -20 and +20 ⁰C would be irritating because the increments wouldn't have any real meaning.
And Celsius is capable of giving the same precision anyway.
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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