How's the weather?
- Giovanni Schwartz
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How's the weather?
I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.
It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.
It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.
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I've got no complaints!
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It's pretty warm; I think about 32 right now. However, it rained last night and froze overnight, so the roads are icy at least for the next few hours.
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Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.
It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.
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Or 0.59625 Rømer for 18th century Danes.Katya wrote:Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.
It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.
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Aww, my ancestors were 18th century Danes.Digit wrote:Or 0.59625 Rømer for 18th century Danes.Katya wrote:Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.
It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.
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-12 degrees Celsius here in Toronto.
(Or -9.6 degrees Réaumur, which seems to be what nineteenth-century Russia prefers, so I guess I should adopt it)
(Or -9.6 degrees Réaumur, which seems to be what nineteenth-century Russia prefers, so I guess I should adopt it)
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Seems like the Dalton temperature scale would be the hardest to get an intuitive feel for, it being logarithmic while pretty much all the rest are linear.
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- Giovanni Schwartz
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Or, since we're al(most all) American, we can just stick with Fahrenheit! What a crazy concept.
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It's been in the 50s the last few days here on the other side of the Rockies.
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Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.
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Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.
Make up your mind, woman!Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.
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Huh, apparently, the Réaumur scale gets some modern-day use in Italian dairies for measuring milk temperatures in cheese production. I wonder what's the reason for that.
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I don't know, but in my upper level food science class we had to memorize several temperatures in Réaumur as a result. I think it's just one of those "just the way it's done" things that get set in stone and become hard to change. I'll toss an email to Dr. Ogden though, maybe I can get a better answer for us.Digit wrote:Huh, apparently, the Réaumur scale gets some modern-day use in Italian dairies for measuring milk temperatures in cheese production. I wonder what's the reason for that.
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They're essentially the same thing, just offset by a couple hundred degrees. I don't see a lot of logical inconsistency here.Katya wrote:Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.Make up your mind, woman!Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.
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I like Fahrenheit. I don't like how it's spelled, though.
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But Palau uses Fahrenheit, so I don't think it necessarily aligns with the choice to go metric.Zedability wrote:Also, this.
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In Rankine's favor, its zero point is pegged to a real-world phenomenon (which is a common criticism of Fahrenheit). In my opinion, that is an argument for making it less ridiculous than Fahrenheit (albeit still not widely adopted).Zedability wrote:They're essentially the same thing, just offset by a couple hundred degrees. I don't see a lot of logical inconsistency here.Katya wrote:Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.Make up your mind, woman!Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.
In Fahrenheit's favor, it is in much more common use than Rankine (since anyone who is looking for a temperature scale pegged to absolute zero is probably enough of a scientist to be comfortable with Celsius and Kelvin). In my opinion, that is an argument for making it less ridiculous than Rankine (albeit still not terribly logical, nor widely used outside the US).
So no, I don't think they're very similar, other than that they have the same degree spacing. (And you dislike both of them, but referring to everything you dislike by a superlative necessarily weakens the force of that superlative.)
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I was basically only thinking of the degree spacing. And I refer to everything using superlatives.