If You Were to Create Your Own Temperature Scale... (snow, hot, recorded)

[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.

[Max96]

Celsius scale is handy enough because it's based on temperatures that often occur in our life (for example, snow can lie on ground only at temperature at or below 0C, water broils at 100C (which is important for, for example, cooking)), so I have no desire to change it.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by Max96

Celsius scale is handy enough because it's based on temperatures that often occur in our life (for example, snow can lie on ground only at temperature at or below 0C, water broils at 100C (which is important for, for example, cooking)), so I have no desire to change it.

^This.

[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).

[Ethereal]

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).

Okay, okay...

I'll go extreme.

-40C is 0C.

Anything below -40C should be considered below 0C (in my scale). I'm guessing water will freeze at 30 degrees.

40 degrees will be mild and pleasant (that's 20C).

60 degrees will be a scorcher (that's 40c/around 105F)

[Caleb Yeung]

Why choose -40C as 0 degrees? Even Anchorage has never recorded -40C in history.

I like my scale better:

-10C = 0 degrees

30C = 100 degrees

[AdriannaSmiling]

Whatever one I grew up with........

[dunno what to put here]

30c = 500c.

[MeteoMan]

Celsius is already the perfect scale (unlike that silly heathenly fahrenheit) so I don't need another.

Just for fun though, I introduced degrees Hector (my name).


Hector - - - - Celsius
-1000°H | -10°C
-100°H | -5°C
-50°H | 0°C
-2°H | 5°C
3°H | 10°C
8°H | 15°C
13°H | 20°C
18°H | 25°C
23°H | 30°C
28°H | 36.666667°C
29°H | 43.333333337°C
30°H | 50°C

The equation to convert between the two changes twice at different temperature levels.

[kronan123]

-100Kr to 100Kr

100Kr = 30C (sweltering hot here)
-100Kr = -20C (brutal cold here)

Kr = kronan-units. perfectly suited for were i live.