• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The temperature of water boiling is not a useful metric when it comes to the weather, as it’s extremely far outside of where humans can live. Science uses Celcius standard, and that seems to work fine, but I see no reason why we should use it for the weather.

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      10 months ago

      The temperature of ice melting, on the other hand, is hugely important for weather. 0 point is placed at a very important spot as far as weather observations go.

      Can’t say that of Fahrenheit.

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          10 months ago

          The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.

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            10 months ago

            And those that didn’t don’t seem to be suffering any ill effects as a result.