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Same the other way around. I (european) regularly read about “100 degrees weather” somewhere in the US and my first thought always is “damn, that’s as hot as boiling water”.

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Cause 30C is warm but 39C is heat stroke. Bigger range than 80-89F (warm to really warm), 90-99F (hot to really hot), 100F+ (heat stroke hot).

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In numerics we have decimal points for that :)

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We don’t even need that for weather. There’s not that much of a difference between 21 and 22 C, and anyway with wind and shade you can quickly have a difference of a few degrees.

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That’s why weather is not just temperature, regardless of the used scale. But to ask you the same, what’s the difference between 110°F and 111°F?

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I very rarely hear anyone refer to air temperature with a decimal though.

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I’ve never heard anyone casually refer to air temperature either; its mostly always how fast the wind is on the Beaufort scale.

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I will be controversial and say that I think Fahrenheit makes more sense when talking about the weather. Its scale simply makes more sense on human terms: 0 is fucking cold, 100 is fucking hot. This is about the tempurature range you can expect to experience between winter and summer throughout much of the world.

Celsius makes more sense for cooking (and everything else) since its scale is calibrated around the phase changes of water.

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Isn’t the freezingpoint of water important for talking about the weather? I want to know when I have to expect snow and ice.

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I talked with an american so i of course used ammo (9mm) as a scale

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