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**indianstory** · 06-29-2007, 09:34 AM

That's my point - the 0 in Fahrenheit is not relevant, it's completely arbitrary. 0 C is useful, so useful in fact that in the US weather reports they often report "degrees of frost" which is, duh, how many degrees below freezing it is.

I think the Celcius scale is adequately fine for temperature. If you can tell the difference between a 68 degree day and a 69 degree day, hats off to you.

I never heard of "degrees of frost" but it's entirely possible. Tomato, tomato, I guess, although I stand by my arguments and revert to GavinP's observation that "100 degrees in the shade" sounds much better than the celsius version.

06-29-2007, 09:34 AM	#30
indianstory Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	That's my point - the 0 in Fahrenheit is not relevant, it's completely arbitrary. 0 C is useful, so useful in fact that in the US weather reports they often report "degrees of frost" which is, duh, how many degrees below freezing it is. I think the Celcius scale is adequately fine for temperature. If you can tell the difference between a 68 degree day and a 69 degree day, hats off to you. I never heard of "degrees of frost" but it's entirely possible. Tomato, tomato, I guess, although I stand by my arguments and revert to GavinP's observation that "100 degrees in the shade" sounds much better than the celsius version.
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