The real kicker is the temperature relative to what you’re used to, tell and Australian is 15c outside and they will put on a jumper, tell a Scotsman it’s 15c outside and they will strip down to their shorts and go swimming.
Ice cold – 0 degrees.
Who wants Ice at 32 degrees? That’s a ridiculous temperature to say “It’s freezing out there – it’s 32 degrees!!”
If I want someone telling me it’s cold, I want it to be sub-zero. Not sub-32.
You know I’m right.
I’d probably like to have ice cream at 32 degrees
Normal body temperature is 36 degrees. Ice-cream at that temperature would be a pool of liquid :)
As an American engineer, I see the value in Celsius over Fahrenheit, so I’ve been slowly changing all of my references to temperature, like my weather app, the weather units in my car, etc. to Celsius.
Didn’t take that long to get used to it as long as you associated different weather “feels” with multiples of 10.
0 °C = obviously cold and I need pants and an overcoat
10 °C = chilly on a wet rainy day, pants and maybe a sweater or jacket
20 °C = comfortable, shorts and a long sleeve if cloudy or short sleeve if sunny
30 °C = hot, definitely shorts and a T-shirt
Americans are resistant to change though, so I don’t expect this to take off anytime soon.
You left off -10 and -20. Those happened this week where I am 💀
I know I’m literally taking the bait with this, but the argument about saying it’s 10s in Celsius Vs it’s 70s in Fahrenheit makes no sense, because you would just say the number or high/low/mid 10s and that tells you everything you need to know.
Nobody says “it’s in the 10s” in Celsius. We just say “it’s between 12 and 16”. We don’t have to shorten every thing like in the US. We even have words with many syllables. They don’t scare us.
