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**BDDkDvgZ** · 06-29-2007, 07:19 AM

Off topic, what's up with Celsius? It's got half the resolution of Fahrenheit. When measuring environmental temperatures, nothing beats °F. It's based on the coldest days (0°) and the hottest (100°), not some arbitrary water phase thing.

The upper end is based on human body temperature, not the hottest days. IIRC they were either measuring someone with a slight fever or the thermometer was not quite as accurate as we have now.

And 0 is not remotely the coldest where I'm from, that's a pretty typical temperature in January for us. We routinely see -30C here (-22F) and a few times each winter it will hit -40 (same either scale).

06-29-2007, 07:19 AM	#21
BDDkDvgZ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 473 Senior Member	Off topic, what's up with Celsius? It's got half the resolution of Fahrenheit. When measuring environmental temperatures, nothing beats °F. It's based on the coldest days (0°) and the hottest (100°), not some arbitrary water phase thing. The upper end is based on human body temperature, not the hottest days. IIRC they were either measuring someone with a slight fever or the thermometer was not quite as accurate as we have now. And 0 is not remotely the coldest where I'm from, that's a pretty typical temperature in January for us. We routinely see -30C here (-22F) and a few times each winter it will hit -40 (same either scale).
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