Do you know the equivalent temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit?

[Tarifa]

Europe uses degrees on the Celsius scale: 0 degrees is the freezing point of water, 100 degrees the boiling point. It's divided into 100 little steps. Hence, an air temperature of 10 degrees is chilly, 25 nice and warm, 35 quite hot. Your normal body temp is 37°C.

How good are you at reading temps in a different scale? Most will use the Fahrenheit scale, developed in 1724 by German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit : water freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F.

Which scale seems more logical to you?

[OneViewpoint]

We are on the Fahrenheit temp scale and the English standard measurement system for weights and volumes and sizes. All of which are antiques and make little sense.

The Celsius temp scale and the metric system are so much easier to understand and use for the average person than our antiques. But both get the job done.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

USA: Ich bin Berliner.

Germany and the rest of the world:

[Tarifa]

Thanks. That's very informative and clear.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I actually tried to speak Fahrenheit without having to constantly use internet lol, the false but okayish enough approximation is C = (F - 32)/2

[Tarifa]

I see it as a gliding scale, where Celsius goes from 0 (freezing point of water) to 100 (boiling point).

Fahrenheit goes from 32 to 212. This just put the boiling and freezing points of water 180 degrees apart. By definition, it is more accurate and allows for finer gradation, whereas Celsius frequently uses the.5 marks.

[sage2021]

No I don't and I don't know why in the heck they had to do that either.

We were getting along just fine without it!!

[Tarifa]

Which one seems more logical to you?

[sage2021]

Fahrenheit does.

Next thing they'll probably change is MPG! Miles per gallon. Unless they already have and I am just not aware of it.🤷🏼‍♀️

[Tarifa]

Miles per gallon is not very accurate. Whenever you see it advertised in a car sales brochure, it's way off. Way too optimistic. My car indicates 1,200 km or 745 miles on a full tank. Never have I been able to get that much.

The best way is just looking at the gas gauge. I don't have a gauge on my motorcycle, so that's basically guess work. And a few pushes to the next gas station LOL

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂

[Nikki1989]

Yes, I do. It is very simple to work out.

[NathanDavis]

yep... as I've lived and worked at the border all my life, I am familiar with both systems and use them on the daily too... lol

[valentina4eva]

i have noooo idea what anything Fahrenheit is!!😅😅

[Still-alive]

We americans just like being different k. :P

[valentina4eva]

well u are all very different to me!!😂😅

[thegreenyogi]

No I don't. I've always ever only known it in Celsius.

[purplepoppy]

You'll rarely see Fahrenheit used here in the UK. Celsius is far more logical and self intuitive.

[Tarifa]

I find it more logical as well. Water is all around us. When you go out and you see the water in a fountain, bucket or lake has frozen over, you know you're below 0. Although for a lake to freeze over completely, you need freezing temps well below that.

That being said, the absolute greezing point is −273.15 °C, which corresponds to zero degrees Kelvin.

[Tarifa]

*freezing point LOL I just invented a new term.

[SaoirseS]

I know the equivalents but I use Fahrenheit because I’m used to it.

[Jessica405]

What about the Kelvin scale? The Rankine scale?

[Jessica405]

Celsius is more logical, and used to be called Centigrade

[Tarifa]

@Jessica405 Yes, you're right.

[Jessica405]

I think there are other historic scales, too. Mostly were used in Europe, IIRC

[Tarifa]

Interesting. In the second century A. D., the Roman physician Galen created a device with a rough 9-degree scale, with four degrees of hot, four degrees of cold, and a “neutral” temperature in the middle.

[queenofcardio]

No, Fahrenheit is confusing

[Agape93]

Yeap

[In_Trance]

Yeah