6 ms·
<Slightest of margins As someone who lives in a northern US state, there are so many other factors that affect winter road safety that aren't a binary above/be
by ghaff 6d ago
<Slightest of margins
As someone who lives in a northern US state, there are so many other factors that affect winter road safety that aren't a binary above/below freezing temperature at sea level. I'm not really going to argue against Celsius but F is a very workable scale that has some (minor) benefits at human scale.
- Xirdus 6d agoAs far as I can tell, literally every single benefit of Fahrenheits I've ever heard of boils down to being used to dealing with numbers around 100 but not around -30. I have yet to hear about any such benefit that isn't 100% attributable in its entirety to being taught °F before °C at school. All those other reasons are exactly why I said the difference is minimal. But that minimal difference is not zero. If you add every single such difference that exists between °C and °F, of which there's literally just one, then Celsius very clearly comes ahead, although by an amount way too small to matter. Black ice is always dangerous. No matter how many other dangerous road conditions you can come up with, black ice is still one of them. And black ice happens exactly when the temperature crosses 32°F boundary multiple times. It's far more important to know if it was 31°F than to know if it was 30°F.