Then you look at the temperature and think eh…45 isn’t that bad. We’ll survive. That will be the moment the wind whips up and sleet starts hitting you in the face.

      • @mysoulishome@lemmy.worldOP
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        IMO there is no reason to cling to the idea that feet and yards, Fahrenheit, pounds snd ounces, cups and pints make any sense.….it’s kind of embarrassing as an American. We should have just bit the bullet and switched 40 years ago but we are lazy and have no willpower.

        We should start calling them freedom degrees and just own that we are stubborn for no reason.

        • @slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.world
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          American here too… I’m totally OK with switching to metric as long as we keep Fahrenheit for weather. It just makes so much more sense.

          • @vector_zero@lemmy.world
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            IMO it’s not even about something making sense, we’re just very accustomed to fahrenheit, so it feels more natural to us.

            I’ll be the first to admit that I have no idea about what’s warm and cold in Celsius. I know 0 is quite cold, 20 is room temperature, and 100 is near instant death.

          • @mysoulishome@lemmy.worldOP
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            I’m ok with Fahrenheit but would just make it easier if the whole world used the same, so I’d be cool with switching.

        • @errer@lemmy.world
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          Using -10 - 40 as a range of temperatures experienced by humans makes way less sense than 0 - 100. We’re a base 10 species so it’s much better for regular use.

          Metric aficionados rightly point out that the other measures are all nicely base 10, so why doesn’t that argument hold for temperature too? Celsius is inferior.

          • @spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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            Water boils at 100 celcius and freezes at zero. Most temp ranges are (~)-40 to +40 (for now). Each base 10 you speak of gets a slightly different outfit. It’s intuitive and easy to plan for.

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              Celsius definitely makes sense for gauging how you’ll feel at different temperatures if you’re water. Fahrenheit works better for human beings though.

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                What? No way dude. 0 and below is freezing temperatures. Negative = cold. 0-10 requires light coat and maybe a beanie. 10-20 is sweater weather. 20-30 is t shirt weather. 30-40 is hot as fuck weather.

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                  Or a simple scale from 0 - 100. 0 being extremely cold and 100 being extremely hot (from the perspective of a human being)

                  I live in a Celsius country and for the thermostat, we have to deal with decimals to fine tune the room temp. Flipped the thermostat to Fahrenheit and it instantly made more sense.

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                  But you’re still using too-large chunks. Being comfortable requires finer tuning than C degrees, and I don’t like having to use a bunch of decimals or fractions either.

                  Edit: I see you like 19.5 which makes my point even though I prefer 72.

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              Except when water doesnt boil or freeze at 0/100; Based off altitude or salinity and some other things. You dont need a whole temperature scale based off those 2 factors. Water will boil when it bubbles on the stove, and will freeze when it turns solid in the freezer. Kelvin is better for scientific numbering. Fahrenheit is better for daily life.

              I will admit, distance and volume measuring is better metric. I’m so sick of having to play the math game of teaspoons to tablespoons to cups etc. Distance is easier too once you use it for a while. I bet you could ask a ton of people how far a mile is, and many wouldnt be able to give you distance in feet…

  • @DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee
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    According to Mike Pence it gets low like that in Indiana because the witches tits make it colder on Halloween, or so mother says…

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      I have not seen high school girls wearing bras and underwear to be Miley Cyrus in several years…so if the GOP are behind it for moral reasons it may have worked.

      Guessing by the downvotes the joke did not land or doesn’t make sense. Not sure why. Mike Pence is a prude and teenage girls coming to the door half naked make me uncomfortable.

  • @TurboDiesel@lemmy.world
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    Growing up in the Northeast, we got very used to wearing our puffy winter coats over our costumes most years. If you were lucky it was clear and cold, but most years it either snowed or rained.

    • Maven (famous)
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      The secret is to dress as a superhero and buy a costume that’s too big. Put your jacket under the costume and it just looks like muscles.

    • @mysoulishome@lemmy.worldOP
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      I don’t mind the chill it just seems to come at the last second every year. 70° on the 30th, then 30° on the 31st. Then it will hit 80° again in November… Jack Frost is a bitch.

  • @TurtleTourParty@midwest.social
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    I grew up in the Chicago area and my mom would make my costumes. It was always a crapshoot whether it would be freezing or really hot on Halloween. I was often dressed incorrectly.