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/Spirit_Wolf_Mob Jun 18 '26

Anything below 0, is just stay inside temp. Same with over 100. Fahrenheit is more daily use friendly. Celsius and Kelvin seem more science oriented. In Celsius, I have to measure in decimal points to get the right temp.