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As someone who moved to the US later in life, I learned to use fahrenheit because there's no way to talk to anyone about the weather or cooking otherwise.
If you need to do the same one day, don't bother trying to convert in your head. Just learn the numbers conversationally. Familiarize yourself with how the weather feels with the number the weather app shows.
I can't convert at all but I can use both C and F in conversation because one rarely needs exact numbers anyway. You learn the ballparks pretty quick.
Thank you, this is a a great idea! I've found these common temperatures online, in case anyone wants to learn them:
Description Celsius (ยฐC) Fahrenheit (ยฐF) Absolute Zero -273.15 -459.67 Freezing Point of Water (at sea level) 0 32 Average Room Temperature 20-22 68-72 Body Temperature 37 98.6 Average Summer Day 25-30 77-86 Heat of a Desert 40-50 104-122 Boiling Point of Water (at sea level) 100 212 Highest Recorded Earth Temperature 56.7 134 Average Summer Day 25-30 77-86
See, that's the problem with these "Fahrenheit is more intuitive" arguments. They are catered to a very specific country with a very specific climate. For me, 25-30 ยบC is an average late spring day.
It's intuitive to those who grew up using it. For me, Celsius is much more intuitive because people around me used it all my life and refer to common temperatures in Celsius.
So I think intuitiveness is very subjective and not a good criterion to judge a unit by.
Isn't Fahrenheit a "feel" temperature unit anyway? Once you need precision (science), even Americans switch to Celsius/Kelvin.
FWIW Fahrenheit has more precision for the temperatures you most commonly feel. Day-to-day you're likely to feel temps between 10-32ยฐC (range of 22ยฐ), which is 50-90ยฐF (range of 40ยฐ). It might not seem like a big deal, but I can tell a difference in my house when setting my thermostat from 68ยฐF to 69ยฐF; conversely, if I turn my thermostat to C mode both values get rounded to 20.
But yes, as an American, I think of CPU temps in terms of C, I know water freezes at 0ยฐC/32ยฐF, I know water boils at 100ยฐC but have never committed to memory what it is in F, and in chem classes we always use C/K.
Can you set your thermostat to 68.5ยฐF? I can set mine to 21.5ยฐC, does that mean I have more precision? This precision argument is nonsense.
conversely, if I turn my thermostat to C mode both values get rounded to 20.
You should find a better thermostat. Most thermostats that I have used had at least a precision of 0.5 ยบC.