[birdsbirdsbirds]

In other words, it's Fahrenheit that doesn't make sense because it goes from arbitrary -20 C to 40 C. Even the originally targeted alignment with human body temperature to 96 F doesn't match.

On the other hand, freezing and boiling water makes sense, because you know that you have to drive carefully when the temperature is below 0 C.

[ghaff]

I'll actually defend Fahrenheit more strongly than other US units. 32 degrees is a single number it's probably worth remembering. Balanced against that, environmental temperatures are usually going to be positive unless it's really fricking cold and the degrees are about twice as granular. The main advantage of Celsius is just that it's what's used in most places (and that it's tied in with metric units).

The absolute scale of Celsius (as opposed to the size of the degree) isn't the most useful anyway because you tend to use Kelvin for a lot of purposes.