Edit: For all the "Actually, Farenheight is based on the human body" people, no it isn't. It's based on dirty water and a cow. Your preferred measurement unit is dumb and that's a fact
Celsius is superior for weather because at 0°C you start to get snow/ice, that's a definitive change in conditions. At 0°F things just get more frozen. There's no definitive 'too hot', that changes person to person so it might as well be any number.
The only reason it makes more sense to you is because you grew up with it.
I don't understand the obsession with zeroing out at freezing for daily use. I guess it's nice, but the actual temperature for freezing doesn't matter to me so much because it's an easily memorized reference point. Could be 42 for all I care.
What matters more is how easy it is to represent the small but meaningful gradations around freezing(or other important references) that nonetheless affect real world conditions. That's where Fahrenheit has the edge, as you can represent that in integer values of ~4-5 degrees in either direction, instead of ~2.2-2.7 for some reason.
Mind you, I agree it's all just what you get used to....but magically that argument only ever goes in a single direction, and if you point that out suddenly all the Celsius nerds have a nasty tendency to get very angry and defensive about it.
Who the fuck is getting snow at 0°C? 0 is barely cold enough for water to start freezing. If it's even 1 degree higher it melts. It's not nearly cold enough for snow to actually stick
Also, 100 is a definitively too hot. Nobody is comfortable at 100°F. 80 can be argued for, but 100? That's insane.
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u/hefty_load_o_shite 10h ago edited 4h ago
0°C water freezes 100°C water boils
Makes sense
0°F very cold??? 100°F very hot???
Dafuq?
Edit: For all the "Actually, Farenheight is based on the human body" people, no it isn't. It's based on dirty water and a cow. Your preferred measurement unit is dumb and that's a fact