I hate this time of year

[Red Squirrel]

A few days ago it was like +7 and I was out with no coat, snow melting like crazy. Yesterday we got about a few cm of blowing snow, today it's +1 and I was out with no coat again, then tomorrow we're getting 30cm of snow. Make up your fricken mind! Not that I count on winter actually being over this early but damnit, stop teasing us.

 

[CPA]

I highly doubt snow was melting at 7 degrees. Oh, wait, you're from up North where they use that barbaric Celsius format.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

+7? Cm? What dark wizardry is this?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Celsius format is superior in every way shape and form to farenheights.

We should modernize in the USA and adopt to international standards for measurements. It might confuse some of the loopy older ones, but, most people would adapt just fine.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Celsius format is superior in every way shape and form to farenheights.

We should modernize in the USA and adopt to international standards for measurements. It might confuse some of the loopy older ones, but, most people would adapt just fine.

It's actually not superior for every day life. Not even a little bit. Fahrenheit is much, much better for temperatures related to the average human experience across the planet. Celsius is great for math and science, but it's downright stupid for the average Joe regardless of which country they're from. Yes, it can certainly work because it obviously is used in several places, but that doesn't mean it's optimal and certainly not superior. I'm an engineer and I fully appreciate the utility of the metric system, so spare me the stupid lecture.

 

[KeithTalent]

That's what you get for living in Manitobrrrrr.

KT

 

[surfsatwerk]

Celsius format is superior in every way shape and form to farenheights.

We should modernize in the USA and adopt to international standards for measurements. It might confuse some of the loopy older ones, but, most people would adapt just fine.

no

 

[lxskllr]

I hate it too. The fetid breath of summer is in the air, and the bugs are starting to appear. Summer is coming...

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's actually not superior for every day life. Not even a little bit. Fahrenheit is much, much better for temperatures related to the average human experience across the planet. Celsius is great for math and science, but it's downright stupid for the average Joe regardless of which country they're from. Yes, it can certainly work because it obviously is used in several places, but that doesn't mean it's optimal and certainly not superior. I'm an engineer and I fully appreciate the utility of the metric system, so spare me the stupid lecture.

What could be simpler than 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling?

How is "it's 32 degrees so it might snow" any easier or more practical vs it's 0.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything was consistent? Just think of all the things that get screwed up because of all the errors that happen during conversions, or people reading the wrong side of a thermometer, or any number of things.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

What could be simpler than 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling?

Considering the vast majority of people use temperature to reference the weather, knowing the yardstick for the boiling point of water is basically useless, as you aren't really getting above ~45 Celsius at any point.

 

[KeithTalent]

It's actually not superior for every day life. Not even a little bit. Fahrenheit is much, much better for temperatures related to the average human experience across the planet. Celsius is great for math and science, but it's downright stupid for the average Joe regardless of which country they're from. Yes, it can certainly work because it obviously is used in several places, but that doesn't mean it's optimal and certainly not superior. I'm an engineer and I fully appreciate the utility of the metric system, so spare me the stupid lecture.

Oh come on now, you don't really believe that. Fahrenheit is ridiculously outdated and makes no sense compared to Celsius whether in science or in every day life.

KT

 

[lxskllr]

Oh come on now, you don't really believe that. Fahrenheit is ridiculously outdated and makes no sense compared to Celsius whether in science or in every day life.

KT

The nice thing about Fahrenheit is it's finer grained, but I'd give it up in a second if people quit using the retarded English ruler.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Considering the vast majority of people use temperature to reference the weather, knowing the yardstick for the boiling point of water is basically useless, as you aren't really getting above ~45 Celsius at any point.

Ehh, I think Cooking probably gets more attention paid that weather as far as the temperature.

For temperature, most folks want to know "do I need a jacket or not" ... and everybody's got a different preference for that, but any scale with at least 10-15 options would work fine for just about every populated place of the world.

 

[Midwayman]

You'd think a scale with freezing as zero and 100 as human body temp would be the most useful for us. At least day to day.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You'd think a scale with freezing as zero and 100 as human body temp would be the most useful for us. At least day to day.

Aye...
Though I know people are attached to whatever they are used to...

 

[DaTT]

Celsius or GTFO!

I can use either metric or imperial for measuring, although I much prefer metric for accuracy and ease of use.