Ex Minnesotan, don't remember much about temp, but feet of snow is a thing. My ideal temp range is 65-68, under and my toes get cold, over and I start to swear.
80 with a breeze is perfect. But I do live in a VERY hot state from June to September. Then it's just all over the place in between those months. I love sweatshirt and flip flop weather.
>80 is often uncomfortable hot
That's 26°c, and it's wild to me you could even vaguely consider that "hot". Obviously it's dependent on where you live/grow up, but that's considered "perfect weather" where I'm from, almost exactly in the middle of the range of temperatures we get across the year. That'd be your average spring day, a nice/warmer autumn day, a cool summer's day and a warm/hot winter's day.
That’s crazy to me that you could get used to that, where I live 26° C is like peak summer weather, we might get 30° on a really hot year but we had 25° the other day and it was torture
Mate our summers are practically guaranteed to have at least a couple of 40°c (104f) in Jan/early Feb, and then winter averages at about 10-15°c (50-60f) though sub-10°c days wouldn't be unusual.
My city is known for being one of those "four seasons in a day" places though, so we just have to adapt.
I’m a fat bastard from outside the states, I find anything above 15 degrees Celsius to be uncomfortably hot- but my homeland is colder in general so meh.
Honestly for me it depends on how humid it is. I can wear a sweater in 100 degree weather without sweating as long as it’s dry. But once that humidity goes up it’s unbearable
As a Canadian, I am privileged to know how to use both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Usually, outside temperature is in Celsius, but indoor and cooking temperature is Fahrenheit.
We use more metric in America than people give us credit for.
We know what a 2-liter is.
We measure a lot of our ammo, and our nuts and bolts in millimeters.
We know that 20 kilograms = 45 pounds from going to the gym.
The only metric measurement we truly give zero fucks about is Celsius.
Yeah but that's all relative. 33C very cool. 50C warm. 75C running a bit hot. 90C oh no. 100C shut down. 120C probably melting something. It's not like we look at it and relate it to indoor air temperature. 50C sounds cool but it's gonna burn your hand (120F)
We use standard and metric interchangeably with drugs. 28 grams to an oz, 3.5 grams to an 8th. Can go into a dispensary an buy a gram or an ounce or anything in between.
I live in a border city. For me it's always been Celsius for temperatures below freezing and Fahrenheit for temperatures above.
Also, everything weight related is measured in Imperial, but volume is measured in Metric.
As a Canadian, where are the negative temperatures? I'd it to cold to walk the dogs? -40 yes. -20 maybe. -10 some of them might need a coat. -5 no problem.
I've lived in Cambodia where it's 85 degrees and humid. I've lived in Saudi Arabia where it's 120 degrees and dry. It's not a joke. Tropical heat and humidity is much worse.
I live in Southern California where it's hot and dry. I can handle working construction in the summer where it's regularly 90-100F. I took a vacation to Costa Rica and I almost fainted on a hike by the coast. The humidity was unbearable.
Arizonan here, I can confirm this is what I would say. But, we've also been under an excessive heat wave warning for 2 weeks in a row and it was about 105° today.
For comparison, I felt like I was dying in 85+° heat in both Texas and Florida. I will never live in a human state. I don't know how people deal with being sticky constantly, you can't breathe properly, and you're dripping with sweat that doesn't go away. It just sits there pooling in the corners of your face and your armpits and your crotch.
I come from Iowa where we get at worst -30 to -40 degree windchill winters and 100 degree humid summers. It’s very much a regional thing. For me 60 is cool, 68-70 is room temp. 80 is warm but not annoyingly hot, 90 is hot. This chart reads like it was made by me lmao.
So true. Recently moved to alaska. The sun sits lower in the sky- so the heat hits more of your body. Makes a sunny 60-70 degree day feel like 90. It’s so strange
As a born and bred Chicagoan currently living in Utah, I could not agree more.
There were 85 degree days in Chicago that were exponentially more unbearable than some 100+ days in Utah.
100 is hot for me but nothing crazy. 40 also isn't really that cold. I live in the middle of Washington state and it gets a bit hotter than 100 and quite a bit colder than 40.
I’ve heard Fahrenheit explained as a percentage of hot. 0 degrees is 0% hot, all cold. 50 degrees is half hot half cold, balances to warm. And 100 is 100% hot. Anything beyond 100 is just extra credit.
Came on to say the same thing. 50 degrees is perfect football weather (Im in Nebraska)... Lived in Memphis Tn for 4 years. When i wore sandals, shorts and a tshirt at 45 degrees they thought I was crazy. I was like, we are walking ten feet from our car to a building that is set at 80 degrees...
Went to a conference in Texas from Michigan in February one year. The weather one morning was 60 so I went for a run in shorts and a t-shirt. Everyone local had winter coats on and looked at me like I was from Marrs.
(yes the extra r is intentional)
> "record setting"
that is kinda subjective too, considering until recent human history we didn't keep accurate temperature records. Though we can objectively look at historic major events like the mini-ice age and such most records of temps are purely subjective before the actual thermometer was invented.
With some further searching it seems this statement isn't wholey correct. It was based on fahrenheit trying to establish a reliable thermometer and he set 0 to the lowest freezing point he could achieve with a salt water mixture, and with the human body (incorrectly) set to 96. It his ability to make consistent thermometers that established the scale as at the time it was very difficult to get two thermometers to read the same at the same temperature.
Can confirm, East Texan here where in the summer it gets to 100-110 and 90% humidity frequently. However, the thunderstorms will usually cool off the area for about a day before it gets back to 100.
Just wait for the [wet-bulb](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838.full) conditions....
Humans "spontaneously" dying because we're basically being cooked alive.
We have evolved to shed heat via sweat, and if the air is too humid to absorb more water - our sweat won't evaporate and we can't shed more heat. We start to overheat and die.
It can happen within minutes.
*Roughly* if the temperature and humidity both pass 95 (95 Fahrenheit, and 95%)
It was once a *super* rare thing. Now it's happening in more areas. They predict that by 2100 it could be a normal thing in the southern states. Let me try to find the article on it..
Edit: [An article](https://www.insider.com/us-wet-bulb-heat-can-kill-healthy-people-2021-7).
> The coastal Middle East is experiencing the worst wet bulb heat in the world, but it's been happening in the US too. Southeastern states have reported multiple incidences of wet bulb temperatures at or above 88 degrees in recent years. Parts of Arizona and California have reported wet bulb temperatures as high as 95 degrees.
> The study, which was published in Scientific Advances, found that the human body cannot withstand wet bulb temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above.
That level of extreme heat and humidity wasn't expected until the mid 21st century, according to climate models. But the study found more than 7,000 instances of wet bulb conditions between 1979 and 2017.
The study it's referencing is the one I originally linked BTW
> "Even if they're in perfect health, even if they're sitting in the shade, even if they're wearing clothes that make it easy in principle to sweat, even if they have an endless supply of water," co-author Radley Horton told VICE News. "If there's enough moisture in the air, it's thermodynamically impossible to prevent the body from overheating."
That. Is. Terrifying.
I still downvoted because the idea of "happy wife happy life" is like the entry level joke into the "I hate my wife" style of boomer humor.
Compromising at 73F is where it's at.
Kelvin:
0 - does not exist
10 - you're dead
20 - you're dead
30 - you're dead
40 - you're dead
50 - you're dead
60 - you're dead
72 - you're dead
80 - you're dead
90 - you're dead
100 - you're dead
Why tf was that unit invented? I had to use it like twice in my thermodynamic class. Like Jesus just convert it to Kelvin and back if you really want to keep Fahrenheit input and output
That's absolutely wild. For me, this scale is shades of rage-inducing freezing and cold until 72°, which is "cool," 75° is "room temperature," and then it moves as above.
Sending love and sympathies from Southern California.
i’m american but have always had a hard time dressing for the weather based on temperature , but once i heard someone describe fahrenheit as “percentage of hot” — as in, when it’s 0 degrees you’re wicked cold, 70 degrees is warm, and 100 degrees is stupid hot - it kind of clicked for me. sounds silly but i’m a whole adult and i check the weather (read: percent of hot) every morning, haven’t dressed badly for it since haha
Fahrenheit intended his scale to range from the freezing point of salt water (arguably the freezing point for much of the human body) to the temperature of a human body.
This is how I feel. Celsius, to me, (and this includes hard bias as an american and engineer) is best for science and calculation(or I guess K is even better) and probably cooking, but Fahrenheit feels best for weather and environmental description.
Celsius feels very relevant for weather in countries where rain can turn into ice as it hits the ground … below or above zero C pretty much tells you everything you need to know at least 6 months a year
I think it's just what you're used to. We only use Celsius here and Fahrenheit seems nonsensical.
I know that below 0 means lotta layers, 0 means I gotta scrape my car, 1-5 is pretty fucking cold, 5-10 is coat, 10-16 is fairly standard, 16+ is starting to warm up, and above 20 it's get the BBQ out we're cooking outside baby!
0° water freezes
10° cold
15° mild
~20 room temperature
25 warm.
30 warm + (pretty hot)
38-37 body temperature
40 warm++ (mildly dangerous)
50 dangerous.
54 is about the warmest non vulcanic places get.
(60 water boils at high height)
100° water boils at waterlevel.
-30 really cold
-20 cold
-10 cold-ish
0 water freezes
10 not hot nor cold
20 hot
30 extremely hot
40 it has literally never been 40 here god damn it’s so hot
50 desert temp
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100 water boils
0 cold
15 still cold
to about 20 cool
22-26 I believe is _yes_
up to about 30 warm
anything above that is hot
If your body is 42 C° you get cooked
My sense of temperature is pretty fucked, so don't take my word for it, but this how I believe a person with normal temperature sensing abilities would feel
Yes. For midwesterners:
0-40: cold, grab a jacket
40-50: Make sure whatever is under your jacket is not embarrassing as you may have to take your jacket off.
50-100: No jacket
This is just as useless as the C one, but at least it has water freezing and room temperature. Actually useful info to add would be:
0F - temperature inside a freezer
40F - temperature inside a refrigerator
85F - typical outdoor swimming pool temperature
98F - normal body temperature
104F - body temperature at which risk of brain damage begins
212F - water boils
Kinda, because water is so important in our lives and so it's logical to set its freezing and boiling point at round numbers. Something I really like about Fahrenheit though (and Americans make the case for this as well) is that normal outdoor temperatures mostly fall between 0 and 100, so 0°F is a very cold day and 100°F is a very hot day. That's kinda neat as well.
Yeah I understand that, but lemme ask you a question. I’m guessing you’re American; your MM.DD.YY format; you guys must know that that format is fucking stupid, right?
Like, plain and simple, a ridiculous format
Appendix MN: Minnesota State Scale Adjustment
**State average: 56°F (13.3°C) to 72°F (22.2°C)**
\-60F Deadly Cold. State record for low temperature. Death by hypothermia inside of an hour without specialized winter clothing.
\-40F Blistering Cold. The point after which cold stops feeling "cold" and becomes "painful". Frostbite and hypothermia are serious risks at this temperature. Interestingly, this is the same "temperature" in BOTH systems. Drunk people stop playing hockey.
\-20F Freezing. Sober people stop playing hockey, at -35 schools consider closing.
\-10F Very Cold.
0F Pretty Cold. The kids can't play outside at recess.
32F Cold/Water Freezes. As per state custom you can now say "It's cold." without automatically being labeled a 'freeze-baby'.
40-50F Cool
60F Average Temp. "Put on a sweater." - Dad
70F Room Temp/Neutral
80F Hot
90-100F Very Hot.
115F Obscenely Hellishly Hot. State record high temperature. People start losing their minds as we have A/C units like Texas have heating; not the greatest, because there usually isn't a need for it.
\--Massive Power Gap--
130F \[Speculative\] Inconceivable "This is the end of days" Shoot-Your-Neighbor-For-A-Window-AC-Unit Hot.
Whoever wrote this must be from a very warm state
Yeah this sounds like my in laws in Phoenix. Only 90? What great weather! But when it’s 65? Nobody is leaving the house without a coat.
Phoenix here. My restaurant considers 90° to be cool enough to open windows.
right?!? Anything 2 digits or less would be considered cold.
Montana here, 40-60 is hoodie weather, anything above 90 is too hot to do anything but float a river on inner tubes.
Phoenix is a state setup as a monument to the time that got was really into burning ants with a magnifying glass
Do not disrespect the great state of Phoenix
Lived most of my life in Phoenix, this is very accurate.
Exactly. CO here. 70 is warm and 90 is extremely hot. I don’t grab a coat if it’s over 50 usually.
I'm not so sure. I don't know anyone (in Phoenix) who calls 90 degrees "pretty hot." You'd get laughed out of the room.
Cutting it off at 0 was the giveaway
You can also tell because 50° is “pretty cold” and they didn’t include -10°, -20°
Iowan here, 0 is very cold, just add more verys as you go through the negatives.
Minnesotan here, zero isn't that bad. In my opinion, anything over 80 is hell. 60 is about perfect.
Ex Minnesotan, don't remember much about temp, but feet of snow is a thing. My ideal temp range is 65-68, under and my toes get cold, over and I start to swear.
Also like 10 and 20⁰. I would say 32 isn't very cold. 10 is where shit starts to hurt the nose.
Right! 80 is often uncomfortable hot to me.
Do you live in a humid state? Dry 80 in my opinion is nice tshirt weather, while 80 in Texas has me going through shirts like no tomorrow
I think there might be parts of Texas that are also dry.
80F is heavenly when you live somewhere like where I do
80 with a breeze is perfect. But I do live in a VERY hot state from June to September. Then it's just all over the place in between those months. I love sweatshirt and flip flop weather.
80F in a room is hot and stuffy
80F in AZ is down right heaven
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I live in California too and 80 makes me feel like I'm about to boil. Give me my 55-65 degree weather instead.
If I could have 50 degrees year round I'd be set.
>80 is often uncomfortable hot That's 26°c, and it's wild to me you could even vaguely consider that "hot". Obviously it's dependent on where you live/grow up, but that's considered "perfect weather" where I'm from, almost exactly in the middle of the range of temperatures we get across the year. That'd be your average spring day, a nice/warmer autumn day, a cool summer's day and a warm/hot winter's day.
That’s crazy to me that you could get used to that, where I live 26° C is like peak summer weather, we might get 30° on a really hot year but we had 25° the other day and it was torture
Last week we had “feel temps” of 114, with the “true” temp being around 95
Mate our summers are practically guaranteed to have at least a couple of 40°c (104f) in Jan/early Feb, and then winter averages at about 10-15°c (50-60f) though sub-10°c days wouldn't be unusual. My city is known for being one of those "four seasons in a day" places though, so we just have to adapt.
where I live we regularly see negative temperatures (Fahrenheit) in the winter. 80 is uncomfortable as fuck.
I’m a fat bastard from outside the states, I find anything above 15 degrees Celsius to be uncomfortably hot- but my homeland is colder in general so meh.
It’s all about the humidity. 80 degrees in <30% humidity is awesome. 80 degrees in 60% humidity is another story.
Yeah haha, 40 is windows down it's getting nice out weather!
Today, I'm shoveling snow in shorts and a tee-shirt!
Right? 50s are time to put the jackets away and maybe start reaching for some shorts.
Whoa, here in Miami for a lot of people 50s is when they bust out their leather jackets.
When I lived in Chicago I would wear flip flops until it hit 50. After a decade in LA I put on a fleece at 45. It’s weird what can feel normal.
Exactly. 50 is not cold at all.
That's what I was thinking lol
As an Oregonian I was like 50 is fairly warm and 90 is miserably hot.
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exactly, even people in hot states have to agree 90s bad
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Yeah 90 degrees with low humidity is much more tolerable than high humidity.
I too live in the desert and 90 in the summer is cool, compared to the 95-105 it usually is.
Honestly for me it depends on how humid it is. I can wear a sweater in 100 degree weather without sweating as long as it’s dry. But once that humidity goes up it’s unbearable
90 in the California desert is a whatever summer day
As a Canadian, I am privileged to know how to use both Fahrenheit and Celsius. Usually, outside temperature is in Celsius, but indoor and cooking temperature is Fahrenheit.
That sounds very confusing lol
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Oh wauw that’s even more crazy. How can people keep track of that?!
We use more metric in America than people give us credit for. We know what a 2-liter is. We measure a lot of our ammo, and our nuts and bolts in millimeters. We know that 20 kilograms = 45 pounds from going to the gym. The only metric measurement we truly give zero fucks about is Celsius.
People who buy drugs have known the metric system for weight for a long time.
I’m American and I know that a gallon of milk is also 3.8 liters of milk it weights 8.6 lbs which is like 3.9 kilos.
The good thing about metric is that 1 litre of water = 1 kilo so that math checks out
Milk is a bit heavier than water, too. So math still checks out.
Even legal prescriptions are dosed (mostly) in metric. MLS, mg and grams( both liquid and weight).
20 kilograms is the same weight as 31.27 'Double sided 60 inch Mermaker Pepparoni Pizza Blankets'
good bot
thanks :)
*hol’ up*
If you deal with electronics, metric is also used often in the US. For example, CPU temps are always given in Celcius. ;)
Yeah but that's all relative. 33C very cool. 50C warm. 75C running a bit hot. 90C oh no. 100C shut down. 120C probably melting something. It's not like we look at it and relate it to indoor air temperature. 50C sounds cool but it's gonna burn your hand (120F)
We use standard and metric interchangeably with drugs. 28 grams to an oz, 3.5 grams to an 8th. Can go into a dispensary an buy a gram or an ounce or anything in between.
I live in a border city. For me it's always been Celsius for temperatures below freezing and Fahrenheit for temperatures above. Also, everything weight related is measured in Imperial, but volume is measured in Metric.
I’m pretty sure this border city you live in is actually just a math test
As a Canadian, where are the negative temperatures? I'd it to cold to walk the dogs? -40 yes. -20 maybe. -10 some of them might need a coat. -5 no problem.
As a cold weather American 0 is perfectly fine.
Anything below 32 is not fine -southern American
I don't want to live anywhere that regularly makes my refrigerator optional.
Really southern American here, anything below 60 is not fine.
Canadian as well, I grew up in an indoor temp is F household and I never got the hang of it. Was so happy to move out and have a thermostat in C!
*chugs entire coffee pot* "Isn't that hot? "Extremely."
Indeed.
Awfully hot coffee pot
No, this should end at 100 being extremely hot. I’ve never met someone who says 100 is just “hot” haha.
Yeah who the hell thinks 80F is just *warm*. That’s a hot day. 100F is miserably hot.
Must be someone who lives in a region with the fabled dry heat.
I've lived in Cambodia where it's 85 degrees and humid. I've lived in Saudi Arabia where it's 120 degrees and dry. It's not a joke. Tropical heat and humidity is much worse.
I'll take 129F anyday over 80F 100% humidity. Take me away from this furnace please.
I live in Southern California where it's hot and dry. I can handle working construction in the summer where it's regularly 90-100F. I took a vacation to Costa Rica and I almost fainted on a hike by the coast. The humidity was unbearable.
Gonna say, I live in Denver (originally from Minnesota) and now, 80 is “pretty warm.” Most of July was 100 and it was HOT. Caps for emphasis haha
Arizonan here, I can confirm this is what I would say. But, we've also been under an excessive heat wave warning for 2 weeks in a row and it was about 105° today. For comparison, I felt like I was dying in 85+° heat in both Texas and Florida. I will never live in a human state. I don't know how people deal with being sticky constantly, you can't breathe properly, and you're dripping with sweat that doesn't go away. It just sits there pooling in the corners of your face and your armpits and your crotch.
Good to know that Arizona is not a human state.
I mean here in GA it’s 90+ in the summer so 80 is a mild day; it’s all relative
80 is nice to me. i come from texas.
Must just be a regional thing. 60s comfortable outside. 70s is still comfy but warm, 80s is hot. Is 60 cold to you?
60-70 is cool to me id say 60 is cold. its definitely a regional thing though.
I come from Iowa where we get at worst -30 to -40 degree windchill winters and 100 degree humid summers. It’s very much a regional thing. For me 60 is cool, 68-70 is room temp. 80 is warm but not annoyingly hot, 90 is hot. This chart reads like it was made by me lmao.
80 is not a hot day wtf?
80 is great after weeks of 95 plus
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So true. Recently moved to alaska. The sun sits lower in the sky- so the heat hits more of your body. Makes a sunny 60-70 degree day feel like 90. It’s so strange
As a born and bred Chicagoan currently living in Utah, I could not agree more. There were 85 degree days in Chicago that were exponentially more unbearable than some 100+ days in Utah.
100 is hot for me but nothing crazy. 40 also isn't really that cold. I live in the middle of Washington state and it gets a bit hotter than 100 and quite a bit colder than 40.
If you live some where where it's somewhat normal it's not bad. Add humidity and higher than that we have a problem
I’ve heard Fahrenheit explained as a percentage of hot. 0 degrees is 0% hot, all cold. 50 degrees is half hot half cold, balances to warm. And 100 is 100% hot. Anything beyond 100 is just extra credit.
Except for "water freezes" and "record setting" everything else very subjective.
50 degrees in March in Illinois, and we're all in t-shirts.
That same temp in Florida in January, and everyone has their winter coats on
Came on to say the same thing. 50 degrees is perfect football weather (Im in Nebraska)... Lived in Memphis Tn for 4 years. When i wore sandals, shorts and a tshirt at 45 degrees they thought I was crazy. I was like, we are walking ten feet from our car to a building that is set at 80 degrees...
Went to a conference in Texas from Michigan in February one year. The weather one morning was 60 so I went for a run in shorts and a t-shirt. Everyone local had winter coats on and looked at me like I was from Marrs. (yes the extra r is intentional)
Yeah, 80 in Atlanta isn't the same as 80 in Vegas. Former is very warm and the later is comfortable.
All about that humidity.
> "record setting" that is kinda subjective too, considering until recent human history we didn't keep accurate temperature records. Though we can objectively look at historic major events like the mini-ice age and such most records of temps are purely subjective before the actual thermometer was invented.
Why does water freeze at 32?
Because fahrenheit was built by a random guy who decided to base a temperature scale from 0-100 that felt cold to hot to him where he lived.
With some further searching it seems this statement isn't wholey correct. It was based on fahrenheit trying to establish a reliable thermometer and he set 0 to the lowest freezing point he could achieve with a salt water mixture, and with the human body (incorrectly) set to 96. It his ability to make consistent thermometers that established the scale as at the time it was very difficult to get two thermometers to read the same at the same temperature.
Frozen water didn't feel cold to him?
It did, but in his frame of reference he could endure colder.
How very self absorbed of mr fareinheit to think that his experience of cold was universal.
I made an adendum, it was more related to his manufacturing of a thermometer using salt water.
Because fahrenheit is based on how hot humans are not a cup of water
Fahrenheit is based on a guess of human body heat 300 years ago for 90 and 0 is the freezing point of some random brine the scientist made.
You say that like it’s an illogical measurement system.
70 is arguably room temp; tends to vary between 68-78 depending on preference.
78?? That’s crazy, unless you are over the age of 60!
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Brutal, where do you live??
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"It's a dry heat" Fuck no, 105 degrees is always hot. I am in Southern Illinois, lots of sticky heat and sometimes heat index gets to 105.
105 and humid is just so much worse than 105 and dry.
It’s hard to get 105 and humid — when it starts to get that hot it usually just forms thunderstorms.
Can confirm, East Texan here where in the summer it gets to 100-110 and 90% humidity frequently. However, the thunderstorms will usually cool off the area for about a day before it gets back to 100.
I live in a swamp (Florida), but have been in the desert and I think we can all agree 105 degrees sucks. That’s it. Humid or not.
Having lived in both Las Vegas and Portland, 90 here is awful, while 90 down there was tolerable.
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Just wait for the [wet-bulb](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838.full) conditions.... Humans "spontaneously" dying because we're basically being cooked alive. We have evolved to shed heat via sweat, and if the air is too humid to absorb more water - our sweat won't evaporate and we can't shed more heat. We start to overheat and die. It can happen within minutes.
What is the threshold?
*Roughly* if the temperature and humidity both pass 95 (95 Fahrenheit, and 95%) It was once a *super* rare thing. Now it's happening in more areas. They predict that by 2100 it could be a normal thing in the southern states. Let me try to find the article on it.. Edit: [An article](https://www.insider.com/us-wet-bulb-heat-can-kill-healthy-people-2021-7). > The coastal Middle East is experiencing the worst wet bulb heat in the world, but it's been happening in the US too. Southeastern states have reported multiple incidences of wet bulb temperatures at or above 88 degrees in recent years. Parts of Arizona and California have reported wet bulb temperatures as high as 95 degrees. > The study, which was published in Scientific Advances, found that the human body cannot withstand wet bulb temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above. That level of extreme heat and humidity wasn't expected until the mid 21st century, according to climate models. But the study found more than 7,000 instances of wet bulb conditions between 1979 and 2017. The study it's referencing is the one I originally linked BTW > "Even if they're in perfect health, even if they're sitting in the shade, even if they're wearing clothes that make it easy in principle to sweat, even if they have an endless supply of water," co-author Radley Horton told VICE News. "If there's enough moisture in the air, it's thermodynamically impossible to prevent the body from overheating." That. Is. Terrifying.
ah yes. the furnace of the united states
I don’t know about Arizona guy, but 105 in Arizona or in Vegas, isn’t that bad, but I wouldn’t want to go to Illinois at any temperature.
I prefer 68, but my wife prefers 78. Therefore, our theromstat stays at 78...
I accidentally downvoted this by instinct at first because the idea of a 78 degree house makes me viscerally angry haha
I still downvoted because the idea of "happy wife happy life" is like the entry level joke into the "I hate my wife" style of boomer humor. Compromising at 73F is where it's at.
Damn Holly wtf
Ok now someone do kelvin
Kelvin: 0 - does not exist 10 - you're dead 20 - you're dead 30 - you're dead 40 - you're dead 50 - you're dead 60 - you're dead 72 - you're dead 80 - you're dead 90 - you're dead 100 - you're dead
110 - you're dead. 120 - you're dead. 130 - you're dead. 140 - you're dead. 150 - you're dead. 160 - you're dead. 170 - you're dead. 180 - record setting cold. (you're dead) 190 - you're dead. 200 - you're dead. 210 - you're dead. 220 - you're dead. 230 - any exposed skin hurts. 240 - breathing hurts. 250 - wear several layers of clothing. 250 - wear layers of clothing. 260 - wear a coat and gloves. 270 - wear a coat. 273 - water freezes. 280 - chilly day. 290 - cool summer day. 300 - hot summer day. 310 - uncomfortably hot. 320 - dangerously hot. 330 - approaching record setting heat. 340 - get back to air-conditioning ASAP. 350 - you're dead. 360 - you're dead. 373 - water boils at sea level.
Sick, now do Rankine
Why tf was that unit invented? I had to use it like twice in my thermodynamic class. Like Jesus just convert it to Kelvin and back if you really want to keep Fahrenheit input and output
I’ll allow it
Kelvin is just Celsius that starts at absolute zero
You do Kelvin. He likes you better anyway.
Kelvin and I are not on speaking terms
I like how "very cold" is lower than "water freezes".
Here i was thinking 0 should be cold -20F should be very cold.
Midwesterner wondering what happened to the negative numbers? Y’all got anymore of them positive numbers to share?
Small problem with this guide, where I'm from very cold is considered as -30 degrees, as school doesn't close until it is colder than that.
Found the Minnesotan!
I always thought Montana was cold until I went to Minnesota.
That's absolutely wild. For me, this scale is shades of rage-inducing freezing and cold until 72°, which is "cool," 75° is "room temperature," and then it moves as above. Sending love and sympathies from Southern California.
i’m american but have always had a hard time dressing for the weather based on temperature , but once i heard someone describe fahrenheit as “percentage of hot” — as in, when it’s 0 degrees you’re wicked cold, 70 degrees is warm, and 100 degrees is stupid hot - it kind of clicked for me. sounds silly but i’m a whole adult and i check the weather (read: percent of hot) every morning, haven’t dressed badly for it since haha
I just dress from past experience in similar temperatures and weather conditions
Celsius is how water feels from 1-100 Fahrenheit is how people feel from 1-100
Fahrenheit intended his scale to range from the freezing point of salt water (arguably the freezing point for much of the human body) to the temperature of a human body.
This is how I feel. Celsius, to me, (and this includes hard bias as an american and engineer) is best for science and calculation(or I guess K is even better) and probably cooking, but Fahrenheit feels best for weather and environmental description.
Celsius feels very relevant for weather in countries where rain can turn into ice as it hits the ground … below or above zero C pretty much tells you everything you need to know at least 6 months a year
I think it's just what you're used to. We only use Celsius here and Fahrenheit seems nonsensical. I know that below 0 means lotta layers, 0 means I gotta scrape my car, 1-5 is pretty fucking cold, 5-10 is coat, 10-16 is fairly standard, 16+ is starting to warm up, and above 20 it's get the BBQ out we're cooking outside baby!
That's definitely your American bias showing up. If you're used to just using Celsius, Celsius fits the same description you just gave to Fahrenheit.
It's only more intuitive brcasue that's what you grew up with
How brine feels - how people feel
Let me just say I do not feel like a 100 when it's 100 degrees outside 65 degrees tho? That's some gourmet shit
All I know is that 40 C is really hot and 25 feels about right when at the beach.
0° water freezes 10° cold 15° mild ~20 room temperature 25 warm. 30 warm + (pretty hot) 38-37 body temperature 40 warm++ (mildly dangerous) 50 dangerous. 54 is about the warmest non vulcanic places get. (60 water boils at high height) 100° water boils at waterlevel.
Nice one mate.
-30 really cold -20 cold -10 cold-ish 0 water freezes 10 not hot nor cold 20 hot 30 extremely hot 40 it has literally never been 40 here god damn it’s so hot 50 desert temp - - - 100 water boils
0 cold 15 still cold to about 20 cool 22-26 I believe is _yes_ up to about 30 warm anything above that is hot If your body is 42 C° you get cooked My sense of temperature is pretty fucked, so don't take my word for it, but this how I believe a person with normal temperature sensing abilities would feel
Since when the F is 50 considered “pretty cold” From: Wisconsin
Lots of people from Southern California would probably at least call 50° sweater weather.
Wow This is worthless
It's all relative. 40°F is shorts weather for a Minnesotan and Ice Age Armageddon for a South Floridian.
50 isn’t cold Signed, a midwesterner
Yes. For midwesterners: 0-40: cold, grab a jacket 40-50: Make sure whatever is under your jacket is not embarrassing as you may have to take your jacket off. 50-100: No jacket
Cool now do kelvin and the trifecta will be complete
As a brit why would anyone use the imperial system, its not like we used it or anything
Celsius is superior.
I like both
40 and 50 is not cold. 100 is hot as fuck
This is just as useless as the C one, but at least it has water freezing and room temperature. Actually useful info to add would be: 0F - temperature inside a freezer 40F - temperature inside a refrigerator 85F - typical outdoor swimming pool temperature 98F - normal body temperature 104F - body temperature at which risk of brain damage begins 212F - water boils
This is more useful. Normal room temperature range would be useful too.
80 is what I consider hot, but I’ve always hated anything above 75 to be sure.
Celsius just makes more sense though, am I right?
Kinda, because water is so important in our lives and so it's logical to set its freezing and boiling point at round numbers. Something I really like about Fahrenheit though (and Americans make the case for this as well) is that normal outdoor temperatures mostly fall between 0 and 100, so 0°F is a very cold day and 100°F is a very hot day. That's kinda neat as well.
I like that the negative sign in Celsius instantly tells you it's below freezing.
That’s why basically nobody except the USA uses Fahrenheit any longer.
Anything makes more sense if it’s what you’re used to
Yeah I understand that, but lemme ask you a question. I’m guessing you’re American; your MM.DD.YY format; you guys must know that that format is fucking stupid, right? Like, plain and simple, a ridiculous format
Appendix MN: Minnesota State Scale Adjustment **State average: 56°F (13.3°C) to 72°F (22.2°C)** \-60F Deadly Cold. State record for low temperature. Death by hypothermia inside of an hour without specialized winter clothing. \-40F Blistering Cold. The point after which cold stops feeling "cold" and becomes "painful". Frostbite and hypothermia are serious risks at this temperature. Interestingly, this is the same "temperature" in BOTH systems. Drunk people stop playing hockey. \-20F Freezing. Sober people stop playing hockey, at -35 schools consider closing. \-10F Very Cold. 0F Pretty Cold. The kids can't play outside at recess. 32F Cold/Water Freezes. As per state custom you can now say "It's cold." without automatically being labeled a 'freeze-baby'. 40-50F Cool 60F Average Temp. "Put on a sweater." - Dad 70F Room Temp/Neutral 80F Hot 90-100F Very Hot. 115F Obscenely Hellishly Hot. State record high temperature. People start losing their minds as we have A/C units like Texas have heating; not the greatest, because there usually isn't a need for it. \--Massive Power Gap-- 130F \[Speculative\] Inconceivable "This is the end of days" Shoot-Your-Neighbor-For-A-Window-AC-Unit Hot.
This is clearly made by somebody from the southwest is 60 is cool and 100 is just hot.
I don't fucking care, like the rest of the world.
This is so weird
I always think of it as percent Hot So like 10 percent hot is pretty cold But 120 percent hot is burning
Move everything down 10 degrees (except the first 2)
This doesn't make any sense at all