Comment by waigl@lemmy.world on 70º in December

Temperature translation for non-Americans:

70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C

Conversion for the Midwest

70f= nice out 50f= nice out 20f= bring a hoodie. It’s nice out.

Lol I was just telling my sister in law “how nice it was out” yesterday. I look at the temp: 22F.

-10f - damn. Snot froze. That’s inconvenient. Still, look at those sun dogs. It’s nice out.

-40 - my eyes froze shut when I blinked… It’s darn cold.

It’s currently 50F° in my living room. It’s been like this since start of December. Heating is for weaklings.

Wouldn’t mold like warm and wet air? Not dry and cold?

You don’t want your walls to get below the dew point.

I see, that makes sense!

My dogs start to shiver inside at like 55, but will spend all day outside at 30 and love every minute of it. Fuckin weirdos. So we compromise, they get the heat, the fluffy pillows, and wrapped in blankets, and I get to live with them.

Interesting, what types of dogs you have?

Here’s an easy way for disadvantaged yanks to learn Celsius:

40C = 104F perfect hot tub temp
30C = 86F hot day
20C = 68F nice cool day
10C = 50F chilly day
0C = 32F freezing

Commit these to memory, then it’s exactly 9F for every 5C in between. (or about 2:1)

[da fak with the downvotes? Just refuse to learn?]

You give multiple references and say remember these and then do some estimations. Just subtract 30, divide by 2. 80F is approximately 25C. I’m not cooking meth here I’m arguing on the Internet.

Fine but I’m offering a simplified and exact conversion method that mostly only requires memorizing four numbers

I suppose there are different ways to learn and whatever works! Always good to have options.

their way requires only 2 numbers memorised though

So close to downvoting… finger swiping that way… Why no other downvotes to this jerk?.. Swiping… Reading… Swiping… last sentence… “oh, I love this motherfucker”

The calendar thing is off though. Month first gives day context.

I get it though - if you are brought up with D-M, you get used to parsing it on the fly.

YYYY-MM-DD is the only reasonable way.

[how do I get that hard return on phone keyboard?]

End your line with two spaces.

Like
this,
see?

Lol Memmy interprets that as no spaces.

Right? Who has use for a temperature scale which has 100 as the upper level of human comfort and zero as the lower end?

Nothing like a system based on vague shit like “human comfort” lmao

Learn a less common system of temperature? If I really care, I’ll use the formula.

This shows one of the things I don’t like about Celsius: that 10C is a fairly comfortable 50F, but then suddenly you’re at freezing only 10° lower.

Fahrenheit is just an easier scale for everyday temps. But I will admit that 32° is dumb as a freezing point.

I vehemently disagree with the common American trope that Celsius is good for science but that Fahrenheit would somehow be objectively better for everyday temperatures.

As a Celsius user, my experience is completely opposite to yours: 10C or 50F is starting to be quite cool already, bordering on cold, but you still have a whole 18 degrees F to go before freezing?! Why do you need so damn many subsivisions to describe that relatively small gap in temperature?

Mind you, I’m also not saying that Celsius is the superior everyday temperature scale (even though in my mind it obviously is). With temperature scales it’s really about what you’re used to more so than with most other kinds of measurements.

I’d argue that you would definitely feel a difference in those temps between them if you were used to scale that allowed for smaller variation. 52°F for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but I find at under 50°F the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each couple degrees.

It’s like knowing whether I can run out the garbage real quick without bothering with a coat at a glance. I think it does a good job of helping convey a self learned length of time of comfort better in fahrenheit without having to remember decimals which many people are too dumb to use.

52°F for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but I find at under 50°F the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each couple degrees.

11°C for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but i find at under 10°C the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each degree.

…means pretty much the exact same thing.

you seem to have not noticed, even in Celsius/metric countries, people cooking immediately switch to Fahrenheit, in the same way carpenters immediately switch to standard. most thermostats are in Farenheit also, simply because the celsius degrees are much larger, and i absolutely can feel the difference between 69 and 70.

even in Celsius/metric countries, people cooking immediately switch to Fahrenheit

I’m not sure if you’re joking here but I’ve literally never heard of anyone doing this. Not in my country, not even in any other.

To me this is like saying “do you know how Yanks switch to metric when they talk about kitten mitten measurements”. Like lmao what

I’m Canadian. Everyone cooks and carpenters in Imperial. The British and Irish i know say the same, countries’ metric but the trades aren’t.

how is “10” from “comfortable” to “freezing” vastly different from “18”?

Ok but we don’t count by 10’s. There are 9 more integers in between you can use.

Do you notice a big temperature difference between 68F and 70? That’s one degree of C. Plenty of resolution.

And instead of saying “in the 50’s”, you can say “in the low 10’s”

Nice, but should be “temperature translation for 99% of countries”

I don’t know… I sort of like “temperature translation for non-murricans” better.

Technically we own a majority of the western internet deal with it.

What do you mean “we”? What part of the Internet do you own?

The big chunk that isn’t funny any more 🥲

Chuckles darkly in five eyes.

Bad bot. Temperature conversions for conversational threads should not manufacture extra significant figures.

70F is 21C, and if you need more precision than that, it’s not in a Lemmy thread!

I’m not a bot. (Yes, I copy-pasted that response in one more place in this discussion. Still not a bot.) And as for the precision, at this point, for temperatures in the Celsius, that’s basically just a matter of opinion. I figured in the moment that one digit after the decimal point would be good. No, I did not write a long thesis comparing arguments and pros and cons for any of the options. Sorry if the result didn’t meet your exact preferences.

I’ve been soured by seeing too many temperature-conversion-bot posts on reddit, I suppose. I still say it’s wrong to inject fake precision for this kind of thing, though. It’s just silly – again, nobody goes around talking about the weather, saying that it’s 21.3 degrees out or that the forecast is a high of 70.4 degrees. That’s just absurd.

Another one, are you guys scared of fractions or something?

That’s super out of left field. What do fractions have to do with anything here?

Not the one who you reply to, but that was probably in regard to “more degrees = better precision”

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