If You Were to Create Your Own Temperature Scale... (city)

[MeteoMan]

Originally Posted by cjg5

Come on, this was just meant for nerdy fun. (And quite personally, I prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius. Perhaps because it is what I have known all my life, but to say, for example, that it is in the 60s F outside, I have a very good indication of what that particular range feels like, and how it compares to 50s or 70s F. If I were told it was in the 20s C outside, I wouldn't be able to do that quite as well or as precisely lol).

Just in the same way I guess as °F means nothing to me and I can only relate what temperature it means when I convert it to °C in my head. So if anyone uses it that's what I do. 20°C is clear to me but 68°F is meaningless.

[ben86]

The Thompson scale is similar to Caleb Yeung's version: the coldest temperature of an average year where I live (about -7C) would be 0T, and the hottest (about 28C) would be 100T. I guess we'd end up with very similar temperature ranges here to what parts of Central Europe or the Tri-State area already get in Fahrenheit.

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by cjg5

What would you base it on? What would be your starting (or zero) point? Base it on comfort? The freezing or solidifying and/or boiling or melting points of something? Normal human body temperature? Something else? And then how would you divvy it all up from there?

Not that we need any more temperature scales, just a thought that came to me and of course my nerdy side took over and thought it was something fun to think about.

I'd just use the Celsius, I think it's really convenient

[EA]

I wish America would switch to metric and Celsius already. So much easier and better.

[cjg5]

Originally Posted by Warszawa

I'd just use the Celsius, I think it's really convenient

You are missing the point of the thread.

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by cjg5

You are missing the point of the thread.

I'm not missing the point, if I were to create my own temperature scale it'd look exactly like Celsius.

[divisionbyzero0]

If 0 = mild/my avg indoor room temp. in my deep sleep (2-3am),
100 = very scorching,
and -100 = frigid,

then perhaps 20°C = 0G, -5°C = -100G, 45°C = +100G

G = 4(C-20)
or C = G/4 + 20

Water boil (1 atm) 320G
Water freeze (1 atm) -80G

Pekanbaru avg hi is around 46G
Pekanbaru avg low is around 14G
My current room temp is around 15G right now

[Sir Goosenseresworthie]

I prefer Celsius even though I'm American... I can't feel the difference between 75°F and 76°F, but i can feel the difference between 20°C and 21°C. it just makes more sense to me having a scale that is less sensitive... plus having 0 as freezing and 100 as boiling has a nice symmetry to it...

How about the Suislec scale? (reverse Celsius)

Water boils at 0°S

Water freezes at 100°S

50°S is hot

90°S is cold

wow this is a terrible idea my head hurts now

[divisionbyzero0]

^^ Former Celcius' idea when he invented the celcius scale.

[Angiehughes]

I'm just checking on if I need my jacket today or not