Again, you seem to be having difficulty reading. I said that the vast majority of people are within the 0F to 100F range most of the time. That doesn’t mean there aren’t times where it’s over 100. I live in an area where it was 107F just 2 days ago. in 2011, it was over 100F for a total of 70 days. But most of the time, it’s within the 0F to 100F range. Our average low is 57.1F, and our average high is 76.7F. Get the difference? Most of the time, we’re in the 0-100 range.
The hottest country in Africa is Ethiopia, and their average temperature over an entire year is 93F. Oh, that darn science!
Are you genuinely this attached to Fahrenheit, or is this just one of those things where you’ve staked a position publicly, so now you feel compelled to defend it to the death?
Now that wouldn’t make sense. Fahrenheit to Celsius is probably the easiest conversion to get a grip on: (X - 32) x 5/9, if you absolutely need to convert.
Otherwise, in my region, -30° is January at its worst, -20° is a January cold snap, -10° is an average January day, 0° is a great January day, 10° is a nice day in early March (shirtsleeve weather for the younger folk, I kid thee not), 15° is a nice day in early April, 20° is room temperature, 30-35° is the dog days of July, 37° is body temperature, and 40° is “We’ve magically found ourselves in Arizona, only it’s humid!”
!? You looked at that graph, with nothing under 50F, and thought it best described as:
A statement with equal truth value is:
Most of the time, they are living within the 0C to 100C range.
But so what?
Both statements are not-false, but pretty pointless as neither of them are more than 50% close to describing the actual boundaries you think are so important.
Most of the time, most people live in temperatures between 40F and 110F, or maybe (5C and 40C)
There. That’s a closer and more practically useful description of actual facts, and would get you a tick on a school geography exam where the other two would not.
There may be some other arguments for the Imperial system, but this thing about “human” ranges - is not.
I grew up in the 1970s, and going to school in the Carter years felt like a bunch of cool promises that were broken by Reagan, the switch to metric being one of them. I was happier in school dealing with metric units, as they were really just one unit with a prefix: be they grams, liters or meters or whatever.
Reagan really is the reason why the change stalled, as anything to do with Carter, be it metric or energy conservation or whatever was vilified and poo-pooed. Machismo over reason. Not wonder I don’t miss the 1980’s.
Those nuances could be important in the scientific mindset in which those scales were created. But you’re not using the Farenheit scale on science anymore. I know 25 ºC is a nice temperature just from my experience. Nobody really rationalizes those things using the conceptual base of the temperature scale. Most people don’t even know the origin of the temperature scales. Seriously. At the end of the day, metric is just as intuitive as gallons, miles and Farenheit.
I still find it just plain petty that one of Reagan’s first acts as president was having the solar panels Carter put on the white house roof removed. “We can’t ultimately save government money keeping the lights on if it’s done with something liberal!”
If you look only at individual units, to a large extent, yes…
But a kilometer is 1000 meters, and a millimeter is a thousandth of one. Unlike the typical Imperial system, with 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, and 1760 yards in a mile…
8 decachains in a mile? You’da thunk that, having finally achieved something rational with chains and furlongs, they’da made a mile equaling one hectochain.
Yes, it doesn’t make part of my life. The only time I hear about it is when I read Americans talk about it. My country never used it. Sorry if I forgot the name. I may have learned about it, once, in school, as “alternative measures used around the world”, together with other stuff. If I need to use feet or inches I just convert it using Google, but I don’t think in inches or feet, I think in meters, centimeters, millimeters, kilometers etc. It is what it is.
