Then you look at the temperature and think eh…45 isn’t that bad. We’ll survive. That will be the moment the wind whips up and sleet starts hitting you in the face.

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    IMO there is no reason to cling to the idea that feet and yards, Fahrenheit, pounds snd ounces, cups and pints make any sense.….it’s kind of embarrassing as an American. We should have just bit the bullet and switched 40 years ago but we are lazy and have no willpower.

    We should start calling them freedom degrees and just own that we are stubborn for no reason.

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      11 months ago

      American here too… I’m totally OK with switching to metric as long as we keep Fahrenheit for weather. It just makes so much more sense.

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        IMO it’s not even about something making sense, we’re just very accustomed to fahrenheit, so it feels more natural to us.

        I’ll be the first to admit that I have no idea about what’s warm and cold in Celsius. I know 0 is quite cold, 20 is room temperature, and 100 is near instant death.

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          11 months ago

          20 is a hot room, 15 is room temperature

          10 - 30 is average for most weather in moderate parts of the world 5 - 10 is it cold night <3 and you have snow 50 would be a desert

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            11 months ago

            15°C is way too cold as room temperature, 18 - 20°C is the minimum at which I’m comfortable