I recently moved to Canada from the US. I’m willing to admit that kilometers are beter than miles on an objective level, but I am very insistent that Fahrenheit is objectively better than Celcius. It’s so much less useful to only really have a scale from like -10 to 35ish. You can’t talk about the weather in sets of 10’s. Like, in the US I can just say “it’ll be in the 60’s today” and get a wide range idea of the temperature really quickly. There’s not an equivalent quick way of giving a range like that in Canada without it being awkward. I can tell people don’t feel as comfortable talking about the temperature here as they do in the States as a result.
I think we all adapted to what we learned, the first time I visited and drove in the U.S. I found it curious that only with reading the miles left to your destination is almost the same time in minutes that takes you to drive there, that’s useful, that’s very well adapted, while I find very accurate to calculate the temperature in celsius without seeing it in a thermometer, maybe because in Mexico closer to the equator there are no significant changes during the year only in winter and 3/4 of the year the variation of temperature is very little.
As someone who grew up in Canada, I wouldn’t say that’s necessarily true. Personally, 0-10 is going to be chilly, nearing cold, 10-20 is sweater weather, anything over 20 is summer heat, anything below 0 is winter cold.
I guess it really just comes down to which system you grew up using.
Pretty much. I grew up on Celsius so I use that, but I can see how useful Fahrenheit can be just ‘cause of the nice round numbers of 0-100. Both are good.
Metric system for the win! The centigrade scale has a precise ratio in its design and kelvin is used a lot in physics as an absolute scale which is part of the SI (the international system of units).
As an European, I have no idea about how to make sense of the Fahrenheit scale.
While I’m here, I’ll share a little joke about unit systems:
Is 50 Fahrenheit perfect temp then?
Saw this a thousand times, still funny
