Why wasn’t I born in Sweden 😭.

Or a nice winter in the Balkans.

Perkele!

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.

Yes. It’s wonderful. It feels great physically and mentally. Wim Hoff is a bit crazy tho tbh

100°C is a quite hot one. It could hurt your nose and ears a bit, especially if they having a steaming session.

The cold water (normally ~10°C) does not hurt at all. The first minute your brain is not able to differentiate the temperature at all. After that it gets quite quickly into: ohh I should leave!

Btw: you should try sauna at some point. Especially with the steaming it’s amazing. There are also milder ones with ~80°C, I would recommend at the start.

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?

You don’t actually start boiling at 100C lol

With school grades, when you get >100, you get bullied by your peers

Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?

Perfect running weather.

I diagnose you with “weak, non-Finnish blood.”

Put a coat on, loser

What the fuck, aren’t most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?

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.

For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal,

The SI base unit for temperature is Kelvin with 0 K being the coldest possible temperature. 273.15 K is the melting point of ice. But it’s a lot better suited for temperature differences. Celsius is only a derived unit.

And well, all units and measurement systems had a lot of changes over time because some things turned out to be impractical or inaccurate.

Initially Celsius had 100° as the freezing point of water, 0° as the boiling point of water. Fahrenheit had 0° as the coldest temperature he could produce and the (wrong) average human body temperature at 90°. Kelvin was initially defined via Celsius, that got reversed, they have the same scale. There is also Rankine, which starts at 0 like Kelvin, but uses the Fahrenheit scale.

And the US partially uses SI units anyways, all units are derived from them to use their superior base unit definitions. This system came into existence to have unit definitions that are better reproducible and change less over time. Since everything was redefined and all numbers changed anyways, they also tried to make use of the “new” decimal representation of numbers. And new unit names were nice to create some general units, in contrast to foot and pound, which were always different from place to place, at times even from city to city.

I don’t expect the US to ever switch. The US switched to international yard and pound instead of switching to a decimal system. After US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa agreed on that one, all countries who remained using these units had a uniform definition for them. Since then you don’t need to know any longer which yard or pound it was. Though not all units got standardized by that.

And some countries didn’t drop all old units and metricized some instead. Even SI kept the ton(ne). You can’t know what 1t exactly means without knowing the context, it can be 2240lb, 2000lb or 1000kg (~2204.6226lb).

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.

Celcius us a horrible scale for science or engineering. The world literally explodes when water freezes.

Minnesota checking in. This is exactly correct. Great time for sitting around a fire.

51 would not be a passing grade in most of the US

Are you saying global warming is actually caused by the bias of IGN reviewers?

Can you prove that?

Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It’s all pretty subjective.

If course there’s a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that’s not for the overwhelming majority of people.

I mean, it’s literally freezing.

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.

Ok is -273.15 C.

22.5 is about the point where it starts being too warm

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.