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^If you're an American and you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country about the weather, you've probably been a little confused when he or she says that the afternoon temperature is a nice 21 degrees. To you, that might sound like a chilly winter day, but to them, it's a pleasantly warm springtime temperature.
That's because virtually every other country in the rest of the world uses the Celsius temperature scale, part of the metric system, which denotes the temperature at which water freezes as 0 degrees, and the temperature at which it boils as 100 degrees. But the U.S. and a few other holdouts – the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Belize and Palau – cling to the Fahrenheit scale, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. That means that the 21 degrees C temperature that we previously mentioned is the equivalent of a balmy 70 degrees F in the U.S.
The persistence of Fahrenheit is one of those puzzling American idiosyncrasies, the equivalent of how the U.S. uses the word soccer to describe what the rest of the planet calls football. So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia. Americans generally loathe the metric system – this 2015 poll found that just 21 percent of the public favored converting to metric measures, while 64 percent were opposed.
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
^If you're an American and you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country about the weather, you've probably been a little confused when he or she says that the afternoon temperature is a nice 21 degrees. To you, that might sound like a chilly winter day, but to them, it's a pleasantly warm springtime temperature.
That's because virtually every other country in the rest of the world uses the Celsius temperature scale, part of the metric system, which denotes the temperature at which water freezes as 0 degrees, and the temperature at which it boils as 100 degrees. But the U.S. and a few other holdouts – the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Belize and Palau – cling to the Fahrenheit scale, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. That means that the 21 degrees C temperature that we previously mentioned is the equivalent of a balmy 70 degrees F in the U.S.
The persistence of Fahrenheit is one of those puzzling American idiosyncrasies, the equivalent of how the U.S. uses the word soccer to describe what the rest of the planet calls football. So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia. Americans generally loathe the metric system – this 2015 poll found that just 21 percent of the public favored converting to metric measures, while 64 percent were opposed.
The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.
Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .
Liquid measure are
^If you're an American and you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country about the weather, you've probably been a little confused when he or she says that the afternoon temperature is a nice 21 degrees. To you, that might sound like a chilly winter day, but to them, it's a pleasantly warm springtime temperature.
That's because virtually every other country in the rest of the world uses the Celsius temperature scale, part of the metric system, which denotes the temperature at which water freezes as 0 degrees, and the temperature at which it boils as 100 degrees. But the U.S. and a few other holdouts – the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Belize and Palau – cling to the Fahrenheit scale, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. That means that the 21 degrees C temperature that we previously mentioned is the equivalent of a balmy 70 degrees F in the U.S.
The persistence of Fahrenheit is one of those puzzling American idiosyncrasies, the equivalent of how the U.S. uses the word soccer to describe what the rest of the planet calls football. So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia. Americans generally loathe the metric system – this 2015 poll found that just 21 percent of the public favored converting to metric measures, while 64 percent were opposed.
The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.
Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .
Liquid measure are
OTOH, you do have metric. I've noticed in Target, for instance, the bedding is also listed in metres and centimetres.
And in French!
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
Yes; but just think. It was invented by a German.
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
Yes; but just think. It was invented by a German.
Not everything that came out of Germany is bad ...
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
The bread is amazing
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
I remember that CARTER thing-----it was like he could not think of anything
to do. BIG problem for me------101 degrees is no longer fever and 98.6 is
no longer "normal" for simplicity-----in weather 20 degrees is something
like 70
There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia.
Nothing wrong with inertia. No reason to change for change's sake. Jimmy Carter tried to legislate the metric system into America in the '70s and it flopped miserably.
I remember that CARTER thing-----it was like he could not think of anything
to do. BIG problem for me------101 degrees is no longer fever and 98.6 is
no longer "normal" for simplicity-----in weather 20 degrees is something
like 70
Having lived abroad for most of my adult life, I am adept at going back and forth. But, changing from one to the other is not an easy thing.
The bread is amazing
On the other hand, I still bake my Bubbe's German sourdough rye recipe with home-milled flour, molasses, fennel, anise, and orange zest.
It's to die for ...
I love that too.
Infact I think I might go out and buy some. Soon.
The bread is amazing
On the other hand, I still bake my Bubbe's German sourdough rye recipe with home-milled flour, molasses, fennel, anise, and orange zest.
It's to die for ...
I love that too.
Infact I think I might go out and buy some. Soon.
Buy?! Blasphemy!
The bread is amazing
On the other hand, I still bake my Bubbe's German sourdough rye recipe with home-milled flour, molasses, fennel, anise, and orange zest.
It's to die for ...
I love that too.
Infact I think I might go out and buy some. Soon.
Buy?! Blasphemy!
I'm not geared up for baking bread.
