[stephen_g]

Yeah but Fahrenheit still feels super alien and unintuitive if you haven’t used it much. I have like three or four approximate values that I think I know what they feel like, but most of the time I really have to stop and think.

[anton-c]

For casual human use I would say Fahrenheit is one of the more easily defended imperial units since it has more resolution.

In reality hearing its 80 outside where I live could mean beautiful day or sweltering mugginess so it's never been a great indicator for me regardless of unit.

Or when people adjust a thermostat by like 2 degrees. If you changed it and didn't tell me idk if I would even perceive it. Temperature is weird.

[Chico75]

The resolution part doesn't really hold for me, celsius can have decimals to have as much precision as you need but for weather purpose, half degree precision is usually more than enough.

[igouy]

"… the US National Weather Service (NWS) uses the Celsius scale internally and when communicating with other scientific agencies, but converts temperatures to Fahrenheit when releasing data to the general public."

Kind-of funny; kind-of sad.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

[jbaber]

What's sad about scientists reporting in units practical for their audience?

Should the label on a cookie say 836,800 J?

[mbs159]

Of course not, you'd have to label as 837 kJ

[eCa]

We Celsius users use decimals if we need higher resolution.

[anton-c]

That's fair. When I put "I would say" followed by "in reality" it means I don't fully support it.

The previous comment said they don't find F that useful since they aren't familiar. I am, and I dont find it that useful for predicting how it actually feels outside. Celsius doesn't change much for me in that situation.

[igouy]

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...