[rvieira]

I live in the north of England where temperature varies from 38F in Jan to 57F in August. It's pretty chilly for me, so I tend to spend a considerable amount of gas throughout the year. I'm renting a house, so deep work like insulation gets complicated.

My point is that even with a comfortable salary, I will feel ~£600/month in energy. I can only fear for people that earn much less than me.

[Symbiote]

Why have you converted the temperatures to Fahrenheit? It hasn't been used in BBC weather forecasts in Britain since the 1960s.

[rvieira]

People living in the UK already know the north is chilly, no need to quantify it. I have the impression that the overwhelming majority of HN is from the US, and "chilly" can mean different things depending where you're from.

[Hnrobert42]

As an American on holiday in the UK, I appreciate the Fahrenheit.

My impression of the readership is that it depends on the time of day. When I was in Vietnam, I would wake up to US centric posts full of comments. When I wake up early on the East Coast of the US (~6:30 am) I see more comments from Europe/UK. By mid afternoon, most of the posters seem to be from the US or at least the Americas.

I base this on about 5 years of daily HN reading. I infer the posters’ locations from spelling, grammar, but most often their own admission. Nonetheless, this is just anecdata.

[jjgreen]

Used to be that Brits commonly used a dual temperature system, cold weather in Centigrade (brr, -5 outside), hot weather in Fahrenheit (phew, 85 today, what a scorcher!).

[ghostwriter]

it reminds me of this BBC video from 70s regarding the public opinion on the metric system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykthWUdkhu0

[missedthecue]

Probably for the convenience of the userbase here.

[andyjohnson0]

> I live in the north of England where temperature varies from 38F in Jan to 57F in August

38F = 3½C

57F = 14C

Not sure why you used Farenheit, but I live in the north too and it's colder and warmer than that. Currently 22C (61F) here in rainy Manchester.

[rvieira]

I'm sorry but I don't understand the comment.

First, I'm not in Manchester, considerably more northern, so why try to compare?

Secondly, Manchester's average temperature in August is close to 16C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester#Climate).

Thirdly what is strange about the temperature on a given day being higher than the average?

[gspetr]

>Not sure why you used Farenheit

People from Europe likely already have a vague idea of what the temp is like in northern parts of it, and 45% of HN is from US according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905

[frumper]

your 22C conversion is off, 22C = 71F

[misja111]

Better buy some warm clothes. Or otherwise you can always hope for global warming to save the day ;)