On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Darryl Shannon wrote:
> Centigrade is best because of one fact. Zero degrees. Face facts,
> you lose. No possible argument can be advanced that will make
> Farhenheit superior when placed against that simple fact. And it is a
> very important fact (At least in northern North America, perhaps not
> so much in .br). Is it snowing? Are the puddles frozen? ZERO. Say
> it! ZEEEE-RO! Not Thirty-two, that MAKES NO SENSE.
>
> Oh, I can hear you say, "But with Fahrenheit we get more precision!"
> Bzzzzzt! Wrong! Sure, one degree C is two degrees F. But so what?
> When they predict the weather, or when they report the weather, what
> is meaningful? They say, "High seventies" or even "In the Fifties".
> Which means that meaningful temperatures are given in blocks of 5 or
> 10 degrees!
About the only thing you can say for it is that that's just what some of
us were raised with, and that's what we're used to thinking in terms of.
Julia
who has set her Weatherbug temp reading to Centigrade (but who knows how
long that'll last?), and can tell you that 12 degrees in the sunlight is
fairly nice
