I always love when Americans start getting into why Fahrenheit is superior. They’re like it just makes more sense for weather. Yeah, if you’re American. The rest of the world is gonna be like 70? Am I dead?
@skinnylatte I’m going to wade right into this, probably because I feel like being abused today for some reason.
Speaking only about temperature, Fahrenheit, while weird, is a more human scale in my view. As humans, having five more of a thing is generally considered a little more, not a lot more. Translating that to temperature, 5 more F is a little change, while 5 more C is a large change and will be felt as such by our bodies, either internally or externally.
One could argue that anchoring 100C to when water boils, at sea level-ish atmospheric pressure, is as arbitrary as making 0F the point at which some specific solution of water and salt freezes. At least we can all agree that -40 is really cold.
This isn’t me arguing that F is better than C. I’m just sharing my reasons for preferring F over C when speaking of temperatures experienced by me as a human.
