Do you use Celsius or Farenheit?

[chomalungma]

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?

Approx:
Double it and add 30.
Or subtract 30 and halve it.

F = 9C/5 + 32

Which I expect you all know, but just in case.

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.

Quite a few people seem to do this then. Maybe it’s because the weather in the uk is a bit boring - our summers aren’t particularly hot and our winters aren’t really that cold, so using both makes it sound like there’s more of an exciting difference.

Was it the Daily Fail by any chance

Typical Daily Mail hatred for this country- won't even use decent patriotic British units.

People who use fahrenheit, stone and inches should all be forced to use British measurements or go home.

I live in the US and I use celsius, stubbornly so, but can use both.

I don't buy into the Fahrenheit being better a gauging human temperature thing. If you use something day in day out it's easy to benchmark what hot vs cold is very quickly.

It's not like the majority of people worldwide who use celsius leave the house clueless as to how warm/cold they'll be just because a hot day isn't 100 degrees. Hot/cold are relative to where you are anyway. We also don't just use temperature for the weather, it's important in cooking, healthcare and various industries.

From that perspective, it's much easier to use the metric scale.

Celsius. I'm in my early 50s and Fahrenheit means absolutely nothing to me. I think my mum uses both.

Generally I use a mixture of metric and imperal depending on what I'm measuring because I was taught using metric at school but we always used imperial at home.

So , for example, I think of small lengths in mm or cm because of the rulers and guillotines I use but think of distances in miles. I think of my height and weight in feet and inches and stones, but mostly weigh ingredients in grams (although still have some older recipe books that use ounces).

I'm a bit all over the place really. I think a lot of people my age probably are.

Celsius

Celsius.

Another Celsius for cold Fahrenheit for hot
How old are those that do this I was school early 80s

1066vegan
Are you me

Celsius for temperature, in the kitchen and for weather.

Mixture of metric and imperial for all other measurements. Speed and distance is miles in the car; km on foot. Millimetres for craft. I can cook in either, but normally just slosh and scoop.

Was at school in uk in 80s

I'm in my late 50s and do the Fahrenheit / Celsius thing.

I think it's because it feels like one scale for the weather 0° - 100°

I fully understand that 100° Celsius is the boiling point of water hence being happy to use Celsius when cooking etc.

Celsius.
Although I can do room temp and oven temps in F.

Baby weight in lb, but adult weight in kg.
Cooking in oz.
Drive in miles, walk /run in km.
Room sizes in feet. Pretty much everything else in m.

Temperatures getting 4 times colder would have made me cross too. -1064K??????

I use Celsius here in the UK

Celsius and I’m 55.

Celcius. I really don't have much of a clue about farenheit, although I can work it out if I really need to.

I use metric units wherever it's practical, although miles when driving because that's what all the signs are in. And stones and pounds for weighing people, because that's what slimming world have always weighed me in

Celsius - I don’t understand Fahrenheit
My parents are the opposite and when I say “ooo it’s going to be 30° while you’re on holiday” they look at me like “what’s 30° in old money?”
Celsius is easier - if water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° then the rest is pretty easy to gauge “how hot” right?!

C, F means utterly nothing to me and I'm in my 40s only ever lived in England...

Meanwhile when it comes to weight it needs to be Stones... kg mean nothing... baking I can do either metric or imperial.

I can cope with both feet and metres for height once I clicked 5' = 150cm approx.

Celsius, Fahrenheit boils my piss.

Definitely the DM.

Celsius unless I'm checking for a fever in which case Fahrenheit as for some reason I know what's normal, high or dangerously high in F but not C

Celsius and I'm almost 60 fucking 4

Kelvin, obv.

Unfortunately, however, few people understand this so for everyday usage Celsius is adequate.

I often wonder if innumerate journalists who quote winter temperatures as ‘-5’ and summer temperatures as ‘80’ understand that they are using two different scales. In most cases, I suspect not...

I use Fahrenheit but I'm an American living in Britain. I kind of know what's hot and cold in Celsius but if I need to decide what to wear I need to look at Fahrenheit as I still don't know what temps match up.

Celsius.

Also think it's about time we moved over to km. Driving in miles but buying petrol in litres is bonkers.

centigrade

I’ve always thought it was odd that we know what mpg our cars do but fuel is advertised as price per litre.

Celcius, though I do understand Fahrenheit.