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C is better than F for scientific use
F is better than C for daily use

let me explain

between 0 F and 100 F you go from very cold to very hot

between 0 C and 100 C you go from moderately cold to very dead

C ends up using temperatures between -17.7 to 37.7 to describe the same tempertures of the 0 to 100 scale in F. This means that degrees are larger and variations in degrees (whole degrees) are more dramatic. You end up having to use decimals for degrees, something that F never does. This is because F is descriptive enough just in saying something like "it's going to be in the eighties". the "80s" in C is 26.5 - 32.2 C. You'd end up having to say "the upper 20s", which is as different from the lower 20s as the 80s is from the 70s.

but back to the scale, humans like a scale of 0 - 100 where it is meaningful on each end of the scale. this is why C was created, with 0 being freezing and 100 boiling. this makes a lot of sense in science but it also means that for most all uses of temperture it's pointless as the scale now is like 15 - 30. When 40 describes "very hot" the scale has to be wrong. C is wrong for everyday use. F on the other hand has meaningful 0 - 100 scale for everyday use and should continued to be used

Agreed. Fahrenheit seems more useful when talking about weather, because the range is greater.

On the other hand, when using Celsius, it seems easier to understand what to wear. That could be what I'm used to, but when someone says, it's going to be 0 C out I know it's winter time. When someone says it will be between 10 and 20, I know a windbreaker or light jacket is in order. 20-30 is shorts weather, and anything above 30 is naked if possible weather.

That seems to hold regardless of wind, rain, snow, etc.

But still, I think Fahrenheit is much more sensitive and I'd probably prefer it for everyday use if that is what I'd been raised on.

In that vein, m, cm, and mm blow the eff out of yards, feet, and inches.

God I hate dealing with the imperial system in my business.

not only is the range greater but its more centered on an idea of 0 and 100 being extremes and anything above or below those numbers it is way extreme, while things in between are more "normal weather", whereas it's roughly -20 to 40 for the same in C, and those are weird numbers to have a scale around.

i'd be more like to move to metric for distance (hay guise i did 42.195 km!!! -- nevermind, 26.2 is far superior so NO, not gonna hapopen) and weight and all those things but never temperature. C is dumb for everyday use.

there's 12 inches in a foot. i don't know how that's so hard. and one acre is the amount of land that can be plowed by yoked oxen in one day. this common usage is why it's important to keep it. and if you want to convert it's easy. just remember, one acre is 43560 sq feet.