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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Someone once told me it was 20 degrees Celsius out. I didn’t know if it was snowing, blazing, or if he was moving at 50 furlongs a minute.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Not being used to F at all, it seems to me that C has at least least some very notable landmarks - 0 frozen, 100 boiling. I have zero landmarks for F

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Of all the parts of the imperial measurements, temperature is the one I'd keep, at least for weather measures. It's a human centric scale rather than scientific, so 0 is cold, 100 is hot, but both are survivable with the right cloths and an accommodating environment. If you get outside of those it starts to get particularly hazardous in either direction though and even near the ends it's 'take some heavy precautions' territory.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I see what you mean, but the freezing point of water is arguably the most critical temperature when it comes to weather. Celsius is easy in this regard.

+3°C? => Precipitation will almost certainly be liquid.

-3°C? => Precipitation will be mostly solid and any possible rain or drizzle will be supercooled, forming a sheet of ice on whatever it lands on. Look out for slippery roads!

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