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?

Celsius. Though I know that when people say it’s in the 80s they mean very hot.

Celsius, though as I'm 58 and also lived in the US I can do Fahrenheit if needbe. We got a bit caught out because we'd misunderstood when we were told that Pennsylvania rarely got below zero. it regularly got above 100F in summer too.

Kelvins for work, obv.

I'm a mish mash of metric and imperial.

Temperature is metric (*C) height and weight and distance is imperial (I don't ise or particularly know kilometres or kilograms) but cooking measurements are metric (grams)

I use celcius, kg and kilometres (forrin) Still can't work out people's height in cm though. I have to Google when a news report says 'the suspect was 1.85m tall'

Both daily, plus Kelvin when necessary.

I think we should get over ourselves and move to metric for everything in daily life. It's what I learnt at school (I'm pretty old) and what is used in science/health jobs.

Fahrenheit here.
I saw a few winters ago -19 showing on outside reader linked to heating. (USA). My mind really struggled - it was in fact -19 Fahrenheit but I couldn’t even comprehend it. Went outside - hard to breath !
I think I too use f for heat but cold becomes complicated.

I use Centigrade, husband uses Fahrenheit. I can’t grasp it and to the daily mail it’s cold in Scotland so fuck of with ‘britain’ just say it’s the south.

It depends on your age. Personally I use Fahrenheit but it's easy to convert to centigrade. Don't understand the difference between centigrade and Celsius though.

Centigrade. For other measurements I think in imperial units not metric, this is the one exception.

Fahrenheit, Celsius makes no sense to me.

I'm in my 50s and started school the year metric was made compulsory in schools. Never worked in anything else for academic work or sciences, and only use imperial colloquially. Not quite sure how or why anyone younger could not have learned to work in it, really ?

For John Finnemore fans,

Mr Celsius meets Mr Farenheit at a conference

Those who live in the UK and say they work in Fahrenheit and Celsius makes no sense to them - what do you set your room thermostat to?

Both. I have to convert a load of US stuff (recipes etc). But I think in Celsius. When I think about temperature, that is

Celsius - don't get fahrenheit especially for cold. (In my 50s).
My DC don't have a clue with farenheit.

Hot weather - Farenheit (although Celsius is fine too)

Cold weather - Celsius

I think we should get over ourselves and move to metric for everything in daily life. It's what I learnt at school (I'm pretty old) and what is used in science/health jobs.

Annoyingly, it nearly happened over 100 years ago - was proposed in parliament. Nobody cared enough to pass the law though. (Interestingly nobody frothed at the mouth and wittered on about having to retain Imperial either. I guess we were a lot less insecure back then). I worked in metrology for a bit, so had to bone up on it all.

Those who live in the UK and say they work in Fahrenheit and Celsius makes no sense to them - what do you set your room thermostat to?
25 , but I don’t know what that relates to in Fahrenheit.

Celsius. I’m Australian and don’t even know Fahrenheit. Fundamentally Celsius is really easy to understand. Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100.

Although they’re used interchangeably, centigrade is the generic name for a temperature scale that runs from 0 to 100.

The correct name for the centigrade scale of temperature is Celsius.

You’re welcome

@chomalungma thanks for the John Finnemore clip.

I am quite happy with either for the weather, and I'm early 50s.

What I can't cope with is Celsius for body temp. I know the kids are poorly if temp is 100F or more - minute incremental increases in C mean nothing!

Celsius, I don't know Fahrenheit at all.

From Scandinavia so Celsius.

And I use the metric system, too. And kilos not pounds. And kilometers per hour, not miles per hour. And no pints or cups .

Very confusing, depending what you are used to. But then again, it would be boring if we were all alike .