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This shows one of the things I don't like about Celsius: that 10C is a fairly comfortable 50F, but then suddenly you're at freezing only 10° lower.
Fahrenheit is just an easier scale for everyday temps. But I will admit that 32° is dumb as a freezing point.
I vehemently disagree with the common American trope that Celsius is good for science but that Fahrenheit would somehow be objectively better for everyday temperatures.
As a Celsius user, my experience is completely opposite to yours: 10C or 50F is starting to be quite cool already, bordering on cold, but you still have a whole 18 degrees F to go before freezing?! Why do you need so damn many subsivisions to describe that relatively small gap in temperature?
Mind you, I'm also not saying that Celsius is the superior everyday temperature scale (even though in my mind it obviously is). With temperature scales it's really about what you're used to more so than with most other kinds of measurements.
I'd argue that you would definitely feel a difference in those temps between them if you were used to scale that allowed for smaller variation. 52°F for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but I find at under 50°F the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each couple degrees.
It's like knowing whether I can run out the garbage real quick without bothering with a coat at a glance. I think it does a good job of helping convey a self learned length of time of comfort better in fahrenheit without having to remember decimals which many people are too dumb to use.
11°C for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but i find at under 10°C the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each degree.
...means pretty much the exact same thing.
Hmm touche.