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I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.

It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.

I've got no complaints!

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.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.

It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.

Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )

Katya wrote:

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.

It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.

Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )

Or 0.59625 Rømer for 18th century Danes.

Digit wrote:

Katya wrote:

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I hear it's 25 degrees in Provo today.

It was 27 in Phoenix yesterday. In Celsius, that is.

Today's high will be 260K. (That's 9 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans. )

Or 0.59625 Rømer for 18th century Danes.

Aww, my ancestors were 18th century Danes.

-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)

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.

Or, since we're al(most all) American, we can just stick with Fahrenheit! What a crazy concept.

It's been in the 50s the last few days here on the other side of the Rockies.

Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.

Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.

Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.

Make up your mind, woman!

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.

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.

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.

Katya wrote:

Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.

Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.

Make up your mind, woman!

They're essentially the same thing, just offset by a couple hundred degrees. I don't see a lot of logical inconsistency here.

Also, this.

I like Fahrenheit. I don't like how it's spelled, though.

Zedability wrote:Also, this.

But Palau uses Fahrenheit, so I don't think it necessarily aligns with the choice to go metric.

Zedability wrote:

Katya wrote:

Zedability wrote:Farenheit is the most ridiculous thing ever. Seriously.

Zedability (6 months ago) wrote:Ok, seriously, Rankine is the most ridiculous temperature scale in existence.

Make up your mind, woman!

They're essentially the same thing, just offset by a couple hundred degrees. I don't see a lot of logical inconsistency here.

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).

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.)

I was basically only thinking of the degree spacing. And I refer to everything using superlatives.