It's 21 degrees Celsius where I'm at...is this a joke?
[QUOTE=MIPS;40539513]What's that?
I can't hear you over my 25c in the shade.[/QUOTE]
Try 40ºC in the shade where I was born.
I must be the only one of prefers heat over cold. Latter is hell, heat is just uncomfortable. I'd rather take sweating over temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius and pissing rain.
There's more you can do to cool down compared to heating up when outside.
[QUOTE=Carne;40560978]I must be the only one of prefers heat over cold. Latter is hell, heat is just uncomfortable. I'd rather take sweating over temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius and pissing rain.
There's more you can do to cool down compared to heating up when outside.[/QUOTE]
How do you cool down? You can always put on more clothes to warm up, but when it's hot, keeping cool is a full time job.
It was 32c here today.
[editline]10th May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Carne;40560978]I must be the only one of prefers heat over cold. Latter is hell, heat is just uncomfortable. I'd rather take sweating over temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius and pissing rain.
There's more you can do to cool down compared to heating up when outside.[/QUOTE]
Really? Cause I see it the other way around. :v:
Of course, I don't have A/C either.
[QUOTE=Xieneus;40539512]66.2 F is a heatwave?[/QUOTE]
that's considered cold in Southern California
It was snowing right up until April here, this is the first "hot" day we've had all year.
after the "heatwave" it's levelled to a nice even 10 degrees celsius & rain =
[url]http://www.rainymood.com/[/url]
&
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA[/media]
Its chuffing cold again
send help i'm ridiculously fair skinned and can't go within jizzing distance of any windows or i erupt into flame like a thunderbirds puppet
And now it's torrential rain
[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;40605293]torrential rain[/QUOTE]
Been here for years and not once have I seen someone use these words. :v:
[QUOTE=AK'z;40605305]Been here for years and not once have I seen someone use these words. :v:[/QUOTE]
Well it was, there was a load of sudden violent rain, and now it's overcast with some pathetic sun
I hate the weather
LOL. Cant imagine you guys around here in Argentina with temperature fluctuating between 15c and 35c every day.
I find 20c too hot.
It's regularly over 20c, at night as well.
[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;40606002]LOL. Cant imagine you guys around here in Argentina with temperature fluctuating between 15c and 35c every day.[/QUOTE]
cant imagine living in argentina full stop
It's back to being sunny again now after all that rain.
I live in CANADA and It's been 30 goddamn degrees Celsius all week.
Hey, Britain, want to trade temperatures?
[QUOTE=Magmacow358;40606495]I live in CANADA and It's been 30 goddamn degrees Celsius all week.
Hey, Britain, want to trade temperatures?[/QUOTE]
I'll take my misery and rain any day.
Where the fuck is all this sun? In Birmingham it's 10 C and raining. Fucking Birmingham.
And it's gone.
Well, I guess that was our summer.
We had two barbeques! Let no sunshine be wasted.
We got 49c in Australia last year?
[editline]12th May 2013[/editline]
Which reminds me, a news crew went out to 'feel sympathetic' for some people who kept their un-airconned corner shop open for 5 days in a row with the temp at 49...
[QUOTE=nick_9_8;40614864]We got 49c in Australia last year?
[editline]12th May 2013[/editline]
Which reminds me, a news crew went out to 'feel sympathetic' for some people who kept their un-airconned corner shop open for 5 days in a row with the temp at 49...[/QUOTE]
Winter without central heating is much worse IMO, it's happened the past two years for me now. Plus my sixth form is weird and has not a single window and relies on shitty vents to get cool air in, it never works and you're doing work sweating.
Summers over guys
it was good while it lasted
I live in northern California. It hit 70 degrees F the other day and everybody flipped out.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;40606088]cant imagine living in argentina full stop[/QUOTE]
Not that Argentina pays much attention to whether people want to be its citizens or not
I live in a place where it rarely gets below 30c during the day, 19c would be about the lowest it goes, and only at night during the dry season. 35c is still comfortable jeans and tshirt weather for me.
[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;40605364]Well it was, there was a load of sudden violent rain, and now it's overcast with some pathetic sun
I hate the weather[/QUOTE]
This happens when it rains 75% of the time in Central Florida. It will rain heavily for like 2-3 minutes then clear up and be horribly hot.
[QUOTE=BMCHa;40556399]How exactly is basing a temperature system off water any more logical or less arbitrary than any other reference points. I can see 0 as water's freezing point being useful, but how often do you need to know water's boiling point? (I can't think of any times in most people's lives. Also is 32/212 really that difficult to remember?)
The only reason C is used over F is because enough people decided to use it over the alternatives. Things like mm/cm/m/km make sense because they're easy to convert, but temperature isn't something that gets converted like that. The only temperature systems that are objectively better would be ones starting at absolute zero (i.e. Kelvin or Rankine), but past the zero point the size of each degree is more or less completely arbitrary. The only thing that makes C better than F is its degree(no pun intended) of use in the world--its place as the global standard for most temperature measurements.
Personally, I find Fahrenheit to be better than Celsius for daily use. The most common use of temperature among the vast majority of the planet is for weather. It's clear that humanity likes decimal based systems and using the 0-100 range, so let's compare C and F in this respect.
C:
0 = cold, but temperatures easily drop below this in many parts of the world
100 = far past even the hottest recorded temperature on Earth (~56 C)
F:
0 = very cold. Temperatures drop below this sometimes, but it's well below freezing temperatures and a nice point of reference for very cold weather
100 = quite hot/very hot. Many people experience these temperatures, and even higher ones, on a regular basis (not all year round of course, but it's not one day a year either). Close to body temperature. (which was actually intended to be the 100 point on the Fahrenheit scale)
Temperatures go beyond the 0-100 F range, but they are good points of reference that cover "very cold" and "very hot" temperatures worldwide. In C these are about -18 and 37 respectively. Now, as with most any units, anyone growing up using one system will be able to easily use it and probably will prefer it, so for most Celsius users out there my arguments probably seem odd. (I'd imagine you all see 40 as very hot and some point at or below 0 as very cold, and temperatures in F are as weird and hard to relate to as I see C)
I find that the love of 0-100 ranges and the way Fahrenheit fits into that when looking at weather temperatures, most everyone's primary use of temperature, along with the greater integer granularity that the scale provides, makes Fahrenheit a viable and even a better system. In a global context C is superior if only because of how widespread and entrenched it is, so I don't see F overtaking it any time soon. I just wanted to break down the common argument that C is somehow inherently more logical than F, when both are based on arbitrarily chosen reference points, none of which correspond to anything universally better than the other*.
*The (intended) 100 point for Fahrenheit, body temperature, does affect how we perceive temperature. However the 0 point in Celsius is equally as useful, so the score of useful reference points is still 1-1. 100C is rather less arbitrary than Fahrenheit's "how cold can I make" 0 point, but while that makes it less arbitrary I don't find it to be any more useful (and that 0 F, as outlined above, does manage to work out in practice).[/QUOTE]
Fahrenheit is what happens when someone illogical makes a temperature scale.
Lets take a random cold temperature and call it 0. Take the body temperature and call it 100. There, it's Fahrenheit. That's literally what Fahrenheit is.
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