Fahrenheit

[jack]

For some reason, I never persuaded my brain to remember what temperatures in Fahrenheit meant, at all. I vaguely remembered 32 was freezing and 98 was body temperature, but never really absorbed how to extrapolate between them. Then I saw people quoting celsius reminders on siderea's post.

I especially liked "Cheat sheet: 0C=hat and mittens, 5C=coat, 10C=jacket, 15C=light sweater, 20C=short sleeves, 25C=sun hat, 30C=stillsuit"

And "30 is HOT, 20 is NICE; 10 is COLD, 0 is ICE".

So I decided to ask, what temperatures in F I should remember, and that 0, 10, 20 were probably the most useful. So 30 = freezing, 50 = cold, 70 = starting to get warm. And even if that's off by a couple of degrees, that lets me remember what's what in the comfortable range.

Comments

[damerell]

10% warm doesn't sound so bad. :-P

(In practice - I grew up in Fahrenheit and am trying to break the habit - one often says "n below freezing" for temperatures below 32F, which makes them pretty obviously cold.)