Celsius is the superior scale:
100° is the perfect temperature inside the Sauna.
0° is the perfect water temperature for a bath after the Sauna.
Isn’t basing a temperature scale on the freezing and boiling points of water a bit arbitrary in and of itself?
The reason they are arbitrary numbers in Fahrenheit is because they weren’t considerations when the scale was made.
Water is everywhere.
Cooking, weather, etc. You are also water.
It is, but if you look at how Farenheit was conceived it’s absurdly nonsensical. 0°F is the freezing temperature or some mixture of chemicals, and 90°F is a guess at human body temperature lmao.
And the freezing/boiling points of water are arbitrary except in that they are used to actually define both scales. They provide easily measurable standards.
Well TECHNICALLY it’s not based on the state change of water.
It’s based on the formula C = K - 273.15 where K = 1.380649×10^−23 / (6.62607015×10^−34)(9192631770) * h * Δν[Cs] / k where k is the Boltzmann constant (1.380649×10^−23 J * K^-1), h is the Planck constant, and Δν[Cs] is the hyperfine transition frequency of Caesium
So even MORE abstract and unrelatable
Every scale and unit is, ultimately, arbitrary. We all do have a very good understanding of what freezing and boiling water is, though, we don’t have a good intuition of “coldest day in some random place in some random year” is. Then there’s a couple of other common points of orientation: 20C is room temperature, 37C body temperature and thus warm baths and “it’s too bloody hot outside” hover around that (you actually want wet-bulb temperature for that, but it’s still a point of orientation), another point is about 60C which is the hottest you can have a beverage and drink it without excessive slurping. Also a common temperature in cooking as that’s when a lot of stuff starts to denature, e.g. egg white is about 62-65C, the temperature you want to hit for carbonara to not get scrambled eggs.
Practically everything we deal with in everyday life (short of winter weather) is within that 0-100 range. Which is due, to, well, water being liquid in that range.
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Perkele!
I’ve never been to a sauna before, but are you guys okay with boiling yourselves and then immediately freezing yourselves? Doesn’t that seem very painful? Are you guys used to being Wim Hof all the time?
The thing to remember is that air is a great insulator. Air at 100°C isn’t nearly as bad as say water or metal at the same temperature against the skin. In fact, the air that comes in contact with the comparatively cold human skin will cool down rapidly, forming a layer of cooler air around you and lessening the sensation of heat further.
SCIENCE
Wim Hof, the guy who shredded his intestines by giving himself an enema from a public water fountain while waiting to meet his estranged son?
Wait, he actually did that???
Yes. It’s wonderful. It feels great physically and mentally. Wim Hoff is a bit crazy tho tbh
Good for you.
You don’t actually start boiling at 100C lol
Yeah I might be kinda dumb sometimes
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I object. Kelvin is the superior one.
Hmm, I sure love adding 273.15 to literally every single temperature I encounter
Oh sure, so what are you, a Newton scale guy? “What is it outside? 6? Lovely. High of 12? Fuck that noise I’m staying inside at a nice comfortable 5.”
Adding 273.15 is much easier than fucking with F.
50 is pretty nice what are you on about
Yeah, I’m not going to the beach at 50F, but I can hike, golf, just hang out outdoors, etc. If it’s sunny 50F can even feel rather warm.
Perfect running weather.
I don’t touch a jacket until 40, 50 is perfect.
Fahrenheit is like school grades: 60 is minimum tolerance and beyond 100 adds nothing but misery.
That’s not how school grades work were I live but I guess I now understand Fahrenheit
With school grades, when you get >100, you get bullied by your peers
Anything past 85F adds nothing but misery.
About 30C to the people who use real units
Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?
Hell yeah C’s get degrees while perfect A students tend to burn up in the world
There are many people (particularly in northern regions) who would consider 50° to be quite mild/pleasant
this meme also works in Celsius.
In a few years, with global warming on the rise, we may be saying that 50C isn’t that hot.
FML
45 is very hot, 0 is very cold, 22.5 is ok
Ok is -273.15 C.
Nice.
22.5 is about the point where it starts being too warm
0°C is not very cold… chilly maybe.
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Yes it is, but that’s not very cold.
It is actually, literally freezing, then again temperature feeling is a bit relative. Anything under 20 is chilly to me.
steals your clothes and now?
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I’m in Winnipeg. I saw an old buddy today grabbing some beer wearing shorts and a t shirt. He walked past the cars when we left, I assume he was walking home.
It was -4c today. My kid took his gloves and jacket off at the park. He’s 2. We were there for over an hour.
It’s not really cold around 0c. It’s definitely manageable if you’re moving around.
I steal them back 🤷.
It can be much more freezing than that.
People have no idea what -25°C feels like…
I was on holiday at Disneyland Paris at 14 in December or January one year and it was -14/15 °C and it was the coldest place I’ve been and it definitely felt like it. I’m from Ireland for reference so winters are pretty mild here.
It was -28°C the night I was born, 1st of February. People around here don’t remember a winter as cold as that one.
Maybe that’s why I like the cold, IDK.
-40°C and -40°F is where I take the kiddos outside with a cup of boiling water and let them make snow.
lol 🤣
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That is true. Would like to experience that one day, I was thinking of moving to Alaska or Canada in the not so distant future, somewhere very cold.
Depending on where you live, going below freezing, even down towards 0F (-18C), is common. I’d say things don’t go into “too cold to go out” territory until the single digits for me.
Tbh all I care about with wether temp is wether it’s possible to snow or not. So on that front Celsius is quite intuitive and useful.
1 or 2 to about 5°C is snowing temperature. Yes, I agree, quite intuitive.
I like the snow. I like cold, in general. I hate summers, I’m always too hot and sweaty.
Fuck, you’re right
We see 50C in Australia from time to time now thanks to global warming.
Every time someone brings this up, another decade gets added until the US switches to Metric
Weather/room temp wise we probably never will. I’d rather think of my environment in terms of 0 to 100 than in terms of -18 to 38. For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal, and I can convert between the two in the very rare occasion I need to because I’m not an idiot who can’t do basic math.
That’s entirely a matter of habit. There is nothing special about 0°F (random point in the cold range?) or 100°F points (random point in the hot range?), you’ve been lied to.
We don’t think -18°C to 38°C, we think -50°C to +50°C (regular Celsius weather thermometer, covers almost any temperature observed on Earth), with 0°C differentiating between snow/ice, “wintery” weather, and rain/mud, “non-wintery” one. That’s how we know whether to take umbrella (no point if it snows, hat is your best friend), what kind of shoes are the best fit - cold-resistant or highly waterproof - or which kind of jacket is gonna fit the situation. Melting point of water is actually incredibly important weather-wise and entirely ignored by Fahrenheit scale.
When it’s not winter, normal range is 0-40°C, with 20°C designating comfort temperature.
Aviation is already backwards; aviators give distance to travel in nautical miles, visibility in statute miles, altitude and runway length in feet, speed in knots, weight in pounds, volume in gallons, and temperature in celsius. My favorite is the standard adiabatic lapse rate is given as 2°C/1000 feet.
If you score 100 on a test then that’s a perfect, therefore 100 is the perfect temperature.
And if you score 51 you pass, so 51 is the passing temperature.
51 would not be a passing grade in most of the US
Im confused as to where 51 would be a passing grade anywhere.
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In Phoenix, can confirm, 100°F dry heat is pretty awesome
Don’t impose your imperialistic temperature views on the rest of us! Leave us cold lovers alone!
50 is indeed perfect.
And you get the throphy my man 👍👍👍.
NGL I could be jogging outside at windless 50 degrees everyday. That would be a dream compared to my current life in the hell that is the 47th Latitude Great Plains Region.
50 degrees Fahrenheit
Unless you are literally a demon
Quite the opposite, I think anything above 28 C would kill me in a day or two.
I’m Mister White Christmas, I’m Mister Snow.
I’m Mister Icicle; I’m Mister Ten below.
Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch,
turns to snow in my clutch.
I’m too much.
Dont kink shame
Indoor temp? No. Outdoor temp? Yes!
No and no.
69°F
Nice!
69 °C
A perfect temperature to slow cook beef ragu!
Hell yeah, 50 degrees is tee shirt and shorts weather IMHO.
after i moved from the southwest to the pacific northwest and got baptized by the snow for nearly half the year… i very much agree
Fahrenheit is the best human-focused temperature scale. 0 is super cold, 100 is super hot, 50 is the line between short sleeve and long sleeve weather (assuming no wind). Anything outside these bounds, it simply isn’t worth going outside. But then everyone at a latitude <|37|° will say “that’s not that hot” and everyone at a latitude >|40|° will say “that’s not that cold,” so really it’s the best Kansas-focused temperature scale
Because weather is simple, right?
“It’s snowing so climate change can’t be real!”
“It’s the best scale if you happen to live in the perfect conditions for it”
That last sentence was a largely facetious, poking fun at people who live in areas where it can get colder than 0° in winter or hotter than 100° in summer, who have a habit of telling other people that the extremes aren’t that extreme. In reality the fahrenheit scale is pretty useful the world around, barring deserts
I’m sure it’s useful, but it’s not really any better is what I mean
Most useful, or as some would say, best
It’s neither though. It’s not any more useful than Celsius, I’m sorry to say
Same for c, but at half the scale tbh. (with a bit of a stretch to the imagination)
50 is very hot. 0 is cold. 25c is perfect.
25c is literally cock and ball torture what are ya on about. Then again I’m an Irish guy who hasn’t left my country in nearly a decade so I don’t even know what more than 25c feels like
25°C is 77°F; context for any Americans here.
I love how half this thread is solely comments making unit conversions.
Also 77°F/25°C is pretty mild. A crisp mid-spring day. -American Southerner
Yeah 25°C is nothing. A bit on the cool side tbh.
As an Australian enjoying summer right now I honestly think it’s a bit chilly on days we don’t get to 25C.
I’m Canadian and I agree. 25 c is the edge of what’s bearable but closer to 20 c is better.
Hello, you, who walks the fiery path. I much prefer my 18, thanks.
Move to Saskatchewan if you want hell both ways, summers in the 40s and winters in the -50s. YAY
25C is the point where I start feeling sleepy because it’s so warm.
If you think 25C is optimal then I’m curious as to what your “comfy sleeping temperature” is?
Tbh, in summer I sleep with the airco on 27c. Where I live summer gets a nice and toasty 30c+ 24/7 @ 80%+ humidity. 25c feels amazing compared to that.
Before I moved here, I’d also have said 20c was ideal though :)
15-20 °C is ideal for me. Above 22-23 it starts being too warm. Below 10 I have to start wearing a sweater, which I dislike.
