Even here, one *might* argue that the COV explains the reason that Kelvin has never caught on in popular meteorology.
i don't think COV explains anything
We prefer measurement scales in which the COV of commonly measured things is large, so we aren't prefacing every temperature by "two-hunner'n-" except in midsummer. It may also explain (and I'm really guessing here!) why barometric pressure (COV < 5%) never really catches the public's attention?
-Robert
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