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I would like each of us to create a temperature scale with descriptors. Since you guys live in the US and Europe, with much of the cold-winter climates, and I live in a tropical mild-winter place, our answers may be quite different...
If you don't know what to post, just make something like my attachment...
My own scale, how I feel temperatures:
45ºC or higher - very painful heat
40-45ºC - extremely hot
35-40ºC - very hot
30-35ºC - hot
25-30ºC - very warm
20-25ºC - warm
15-20ºC - perfect
10-15ºC - cool
7-10ºC - chilly
3-7ºC - slightly cold
-3/3ºC - cold
-7/-3ºC - very cold
-15/-7ºC extremely cold
minus -15ºC brutally cold
I have never witnessed the two extremes of my chart, and my hometown doesn't even hit the very hot category and extremely cold most years.
My favourite conditions are 15/20 with cloudy sky, I start to get unconfortable above 30ºC and below -3ºC, fortunately those temperatures seldom happen where I live.
Right now is chilly outside
Last edited by tarzan_taborda; 06-08-2013 at 07:14 PM..
Bitter cold begins at freezing? -15C is unimaginably cold? Forgive me if that strikes me as a joke. I give you leniency for being a denizen of the tropics, but the creeping loosening of the threshold for "bitterly cold" in American media makes this one of my pet peeves. If 30F is "bitter, bitter cold", where does that leave 0F or even -40F? Sure, you might have another category called brutal cold that begins at 0F, but 0F and -40F are very different sensations that just aren't captured by such a "wimpy" categorization. But anyway, below is my current generic temperature scale, assuming that it's cloudy with neutral humidity and no wind:
I would like each of us to create a temperature scale with descriptors. Since you guys live in the US and Europe, with much of the cold-winter climates, and I live in a tropical mild-winter place, our answers may be quite different...
If you don't know what to post, just make something like my attachment...
I live in both a temperate climate and a tropical climate part of the year....and this is how I would rank it (I think you have too many ranges, most people like to keep in simple).
Above 37 C - Dangerous Heat
34-37ºC - very hot
27-33ºC - hot
23-27ºC - warm
16-22ºC - mild
10-16ºC - cool
7-15ºC - chilly
0 - 6 C - cold
-5 - -1ºC - very cold
below - 6 C extremely cold
above 35C Unbearable
35C - 30C Extremely Hot
30C - 26C Hot
26C - 23C Very Warm
23C - 20C Warm
20C - 15C Pleasantly Warm
15C - 10C Refreshing
10C - 5C Pleasantly Chilly
5C - 0C Chilly
0C - -5C Refreshingly Cold
-5C - -15C Cold, but still nice
-15C - -20C Very Cold
-20C - -30C Another and rare experience (in good terms)
below -30c I haven't experienced yet
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