18 Freedom Degrees This Morning

[MongGrel]

Had some of that a couple days myself earlier in the last weekend at night, I'm a cold weather hater.

Finally got back up in mid 70's last day or two.

 

[kage69]

I think it translates "Kangaroo piss"

More or less.

The correct term would be of course, Victoria.

 

[Matthiasa]

Its fairly arbitrary to anyone actually having to use it for say science or engineering. The units are nicer but 0 being at the freezing point of water for Celsius is dumb which is why there is kelvin. Same goes with distances in meters. Meters is an arbitrarily choose length later defined on another arbitrary value.

 

[WelshBloke]

I'm not getting the 'Celcius is arbitrary but Kelvin makes sense' vibe.
They are the same scale.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Arbitrary? How so?


I always felt Celsius made a lot more sense than anything else. Set the 0 to when water freezes, and make boiling (at sea level anyway) a nice round number that makes sense. Hey, why not 100?!

This is, by definition, arbitrary. 1000 would have made more sense. Better granularity.

 

[WelshBloke]

This is, by definition, arbitrary. 1000 would have made more sense. Better granularity.

Because anything after the decimal point doesn't exist?
Granularity is exactly the same on both scales.

 

[cbrunny]

Celsius doesn't seem arbitrary to me at all. It's based on physical facts of the world around, which are repeatable. Hundreds of years ago I bet everyone had a slightly different take on what constitutes a precise barleycorn count or how much land an ox could plow in a single day. I think we can agree on that being one arbitrary acre. 😉

Is that really what an acre is? Huh. I learned two things today. That's pretty cool.

 

[Mixolydian]

granularity. i like that word. sounds cool.

 

[DrPizza]

Negative 17 freedom degrees this morning. Had to bring the pyrenees from the barn into the house. They went straight through the house and out the back door.

 

[adairusmc]

What's an American degree? Do you mean Farenheit? Or is America trying to hijack 'Farenheit' and replace it with 'American' just like they're trying to hijack 'English' and replace that with 'American'?

True story, my cousin (9) was telling me that he speaks American (he lives in Michigan). I told him that I was speaking English, and he legit didn't understand how it we could understand each other.

FWIW, -14C (6.8F) today here. With the wind chill -22C (-7.6F).

We are not hijacking the English language, we are taking it. For the same reason we don't adopt the Metric system -

Might makes right, and our use of the English language is now the proper use of the English language.

 

[Gillbot]

Negative 17 freedom degrees this morning. Had to bring the pyrenees from the barn into the house. They went straight through the house and out the back door.

Yep, I was close to your neck of the woods but my gauge showed -19 freedom degrees this morning. What a day to spend working outside.

 

[cbrunny]

We are not hijacking the English language, we are taking it. For the same reason we don't adopt the Metric system -

Might makes right, and our use of the English language is now the proper use of the English language.

Lol that's intensely stupid.

 

[RossMAN]

Not quite 18 today but a little cold, made me think of the old fart.

 

[IronWing]

High of 82F forecast for today.

 

[DrPizza]

Field behind my house is completely covered in snow still. Ditto the back yard. Here and there though, bits of people's lawns are starting to show.

40's, slightly drizzly outside. I hate this weather. Everything is mud.

 

[zinfamous]

Bit of a cold spell rolling in this morning. I think it is supposed to cap out at 63 Freedom units today.

🙁

 

[SearchMaster]

High 70s yesterday, mid 70s today (North GA). This is more like it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

High 80s here today. Was in the 90s over the weekend.

Feels like August, we've been running the A/C. 😎