Do you use Celsius or Farenheit?

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Just been looking at a certain newspapers story about the weather and it's going to be 79 F tomorrow.

I can work it out - but it's not something I naturally use.

So simple question - which temperature scale do you use?

Celsius

Centigrade

Kelvin.

Both. Fahrenheit when it's hot. Celsius when it's cold. I'm hopeless at anything mathematical.

Celsius, I’m from the continent

I use Fahrenheit but I live in the US. It does make more sense for weather though. Stolen from somewhere... With Fahrenheit, you're really cold at 0°F and really hot at 100°F; with Celsius, you're cold at 0°C and dead at 100°C.

Celsius

This drives me insane - apparently we use Celsius in the UK, except when the media get overexcited about the sun shining - then we need to use Fahrenheit to make the temperature sound extra hot and more exciting

Celsius for the heating in the house and Fahrenheit for the weather.

centigrade. fahrenheits used by the older generation isnt it? (i was taught centigrade in the early 80`s!).

maybe why the daily fail uses farhenheit???;)

Celsius. Don't know anyone younger than my paernts' generation who would use Fahrenheit. My parents are in their 70s, I'm 40. They would never use Fahrenheit themselves either, far too old-fashioned and UK-centric for them!

Kelvin

I got annoyed at DS's maths homework last week. It talked about -7C and getting 4 times as cold. I started to rant and mentioned Kelvin but he just looked at me.

Celsius. Was it the Daily Fail by any chance? Bound to be a paper that wants to drag us back into the Dark Ages.

Was it the Daily Fail by any chance

Maybe,,...along with picture of women in a bikini

Celsius in Canada. But I confess I once in awhile convert it to Fahrenheit when I really want to impress on DH how horribly hot it is in our southwest facing apartment.

I used Celsius at work (hospital) but have always thought in Fahrenheit, and still do for weather, oven temps etc. Probably generational - I’m in my sixties!
Fahrenheit just sounds so much more appropriate for weather. 80 degrees definitely sounds hot, doesn’t it!

I got annoyed at DS's maths homework last week. It talked about -7C and getting 4 times as cold

That’s shocking! We’re a geeky household. Cake is often ordered in radians.

Celsius.
I do understand fahrenheit too.

I’m another from that screwed up generation that does Fahrenheit when it’s hot and Celsius when it’s cold.
Couldn’t tell you boiling point of Fahrenheit even.
But I do know that 16C is 61F and 28C is 82F so kludge anything in between from those two touch points

Celsius. Temperature exists in more contexts than ambient air temperature/human comfort so I don't think that Fahrenheit makes particularly more sense. You might as well say water freezes at 0c and boils at 100c, that is also true and the way I've always thought about it.

Interestingly, most recipes use Fahrenheit in Canada too. I could switch my oven to Celsius but it would be a pain to convert everything. I find the Celsius oven temps in the UK difficult as I just don't have an intuitive sense of how hot they are.

I thought it was only really USA who use Fahrenheit

I normally use Celsius, but as I'm old I can think in Farenheit too. Like others, I sometimes use Celsius when it's cold & Farenheit when it's hot.

I'm another one who thinks Fahrenheit for hot weather and Celsius when it's cold. So a really hot summers day would be in the 80s . But in the winter I judge the temperature with reference to 0° C freezing point.

Everything else would be Celsius (room thermostate, oven temp etc.)

Celsius. It's the Brexity papers using F as an anti-EU thing.