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Controversial opinion: Fahrenheit’s inherently better as a way to measure temperature (specifically in meteorological matters).

Not only does Fahrenheit give you more of a gradient to measure temperature (and allows for rounding of like, 70s, 80s, 90s), it’s like a percentage scale. 0% is really cold, 100% is really hot, 69% is just right, and that generally covers the range of average temperature variations on Earth. Whereas like, in Celsius, 0 to 100 is -17 to 38 degrees.

I’ve had like, Canadians tell me like “but Fahrenheit doesn’t make any sense! Water freezes at 32 and boils at 212, while in Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100!” Okay??? I want to know how cold it is for me, not how cold it is for water ?? Water’s not the one who needs to determine if they need to bring a jacket to work today or not.

Disclaimer: I do believe Celsius is still better for like, scientific purposes. And the rest of the metric system > US imperial system. But Fahrenheit,, 😤