williadc on In Defense of Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit seems to be a good scale for weather. It would be a pretty simple matter to make a human friendly scale based on Celsius - halve the unit. Freezing is zero degrees, and boiling is 200 degrees. I call this unit Celinheit:

Here's how that looks when compared with Fahrenheit:

  0F == -35 Ch
 10F == -24 Ch
 20F == -13 Ch
 32F ==   0 Ch
 40F ==   9 Ch
 50F ==  20 Ch
 60F ==  32 Ch
 70F ==  42 Ch
 80F ==  53 Ch
 90F ==  64 Ch

100F == 76 Ch 110F == 86 Ch

The advantages of this system:

* 40-60 would be considered about ideal.

* Each 10 degree "band" has a feeling, similar to Fahrenheit.

* Converting to metric would be really easy.

Disadvantages:

* https://xkcd.com/927/

Ndymium 7y

The advantages of this system: > > * 40-60 would be considered about ideal.

Why would that be an advantage? I consider about 20–25°C ideal. Why is it worse than some other range?

* Each 10 degree "band" has a feeling, similar to Fahrenheit.

As a user of the celsius scale, each 10 degree "band" already has a feeling to me.

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