I feel like Fahrenheit isn’t as bad as most people say, and it just unfairly gets roped into the Imperial System hatred because the U.S. uses both.
Like, if you’re used to Celsius, Fahrenheit isn’t actually that hard to understand in a basic sense. If you see a Fahrenheit value, you can just kinda guesstimate how hot is in relation to you because… Fahrenheit is a temperature system designed with humans in mind.
If it’s 100°F outside, then it’s 100% hot. That’s pretty hot!
If it’s 0°F outside, then that’s 0% hot. That’s pretty cold!
Therefore, if you remember that humans are warm-blooded creatures, and therefore have a temperature bias towards hotter things, you should know that 75°F is 75% hot, and that’s considered temperature/comfortable.
On the flip side, meanwhile, 25°F is 25% cold, and that’s about the line (I would personally say) that cold goes from being uncomfortable but doable to miserable and intolerable.
50°F is 50% hot, which means it’s kinda teetering on the center line. For a warm-blooded creature, we don’t like teetering. We wanna be safely in the warm without being too hot. That means 50% hot is actually rather chilly. Therefore, if we take the midpoint of the center line and the “maximum” hot, we get 75°F. Which is roughly 23.9°C, aka temperate. Makes since (imo).
Therefore, even if you aren’t accustomed to Fahrenheit, it’s not that hard to get a basic sense of what it means.
By all means, Fahrenheit is a decent system, imo. Yes water freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F, but the only reason those numbers are perfect in Celsius is because Celsius was designed to use water as its reference.
People are not water.
Honestly I don’t care about either that strongly. Temperature is rather relative, and neither Fahrenheit or Celsius is a one-size-fits-all solution like the Metric system, so I could survive with either. My point is, Fahrenheit gets a lot of hate that I feel like it doesn’t deserve.
Also, it has a wider range of values that are relevant to human lives without having to delve into decimals, and I think that’s a pretty +1 in its armoire.
I mean -10°F to 110°F is -23°C to 43°C.
That’s 120 usable values for Fahrenheit.
And 66 for Celsius. When talking about temperatures which the majority of humans will encounter (for example: when talking about the weather), Fahrenheit offers nearly double the usable values.
And I think that’s pretty handy.
