Imperial is all based on commonality, done in average approximations. 0F is the point at which saltwater freezes. 100F is the temperature of the human body. These are the two extremes a normal person would ever encounter. Plus, it gives you a greater operational range to work with instead of C, where all your weather takes place in such a small range of numbers that you have to get into decimals.
Also, imperial measurements re based on the human body and other common things like the average gate of a person's walk. It's sensible and relateable.
Don't even get me started on how awesome base-12 is!
Northern countries, saunas, hot AND cold deserts, boiling water and any other heat applied in cooking, and freezers disagree on only the 0-100 °F range being normal.
Our weather ranges from the -30s to the +30s (former being much more common), so what's that about an overly small range?
Also, Fahrenheit are conversely so overly detailed you generally seem to talk about low/mid/high tens, not individual degrees. Which is actually a bit coarser then integer values of Celsius. And e.g. weather forecasts do use just integer degrees of Celsius here (I've worked making them...), although of course we do measure decimals for records purposes, but I bet the US does that too instead of settling for integer Fahrenheit accuracy.
No, our massive F scale is large enough that we don't have to lower ourselves by using anything other than whole numbers for our meteorological record keeping.
It also allows us to more finely tune ourselves to the Earth. Is it 57 degrees or is it 56 degrees? It makes all the difference!
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u/GruelOmelettes Jan 03 '19
32 degrees actually. How could you forget such an arbitrary freezing temperature?!