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I was joking, Fahrenheit is basically setting zero to the lowest temperature most people run into outside, and 100 to the highest temperature run into outside, in Europe.



So Spain's not part of Europe? They push up over 100°F there on a fairly regular basis.

0 through 100 is really just a part-time thing at best.

In °C the same thing plays out as somewhere between -40°C and 40°C where at the bottom of the scale it's really cold and at the top it's really hot.

Plus it follows the simple rule of "negative numbers mean ice outside" which is important from so many perspectives. That makes a lot more intuitive sense than "numbers under 32".




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