Which biome do you think the following climate is in?
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Although Celsius is clearly preferred for scientific endeavors, I actually find Fahrenheit is actually more intuitively scaled for human perception of temperature. Whence:
<30F = Very cold
30s F = Cold
40s F = Chilly
50s F = Cool
60s F = Mild
70s F = Comfortable
80s F = Warm
90s F = Hot
>100F = Very hot
It's hard to find such a natural gradation using Celsius, let alone Kelvin.
Fahrenheit's easier cuz we grew up w/ it. For those who grew up with Celsius, Celsius is easier. IF the world was FORCED to convert to Kelvin, the first generation would have a hard time and constantly translate in their head and use convertors, etc but for the second generation, it will seem intuitive and natural. It's just like whatever language you grow up with.
Fahrenheit's easier cuz we grew up w/ it. For those who grew up with Celsius, Celsius is easier. IF the world was FORCED to convert to Kelvin, the first generation would have a hard time and constantly translate in their head and use convertors, etc but for the second generation, it will seem intuitive and natural. It's just like whatever language you grow up with.
I actually grew up with Celsius.
A forecast of 298K one day followed by 278K the next day does not intuitively strike you as a dramatic change. And as far as thermodynamics go, it's not. But as far as your perception of it goes, it's huge! Far more natural and meaningful to say the temperature's going to drop from 77F to 41F.
The dissonance between the numbers and your senses is too great for Kelvin to ever work for everyday use. (Of course, for scientific applications it's the only possible scale that makes sense.)
I would you call me retarded when I speak Spanish and make mistakes?
I'm not sure where you got that impression. I'm calling the Fahrenheit scale retarded, not the people who use it.
Anyway, this discussion began because one person practically demanded that the OP use Fahrenheit. As Col. Nathan Jessop said, "You have to ask nicely". I can actually convert very well between the two scales and would have no problem converting C to F for someone who requested the conversion.
I could be wrong, but I'd say taiga. Summers are almost borderline for the taiga/tundra divider, so I find it hard to believe that deciduous forests could survive here.
No no. The location has 4 months with a mean above 10C, while subarctic climates must have have a maximum of 3 months. A borderline tundra has one month above 10C, while real tundra has none. The precipitation is well too generous for a taiga forest, as many deciduous trees like moist, humid air more than many evergreen conifers.
The summers are weak, so the actual growth of trees will be slow, but they would have no problem surviving there.
So: mixed temperate seasonal forest is my answer, and probably the correct one.
Fahrenheit and Celsius are actually good scales to display weather temperatures. Kelvin is bull for weather purposes and you'll never see weather forecasts forecasting a low of 259 Kelvin, or something like that. -14 C and 10 F make sense. They're both good scales. I prefer F, grew up with it, but C is good too and I have no problem with it - it has some advantages, especially the fact that 0 is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point. It's not hard to roughly convert the two once you get practice. K is just C + 273, so it's easy to deal with once you subtract 273 from the Kelvin reading, but it's a waste of time and effort. K is good for things with a wide range of temperatures and absolute zero research, but C would work equally well in many of those applications. So if one scale had to be used for everything, I'd say C for the scientific reasons and the fact that most of the world uses it, and it's practical for weather as well.
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