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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:

  • 10c = 50f
  • 30c = 86f

Edit: I'd like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I'm a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C

[–] lowleveldata 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

F = C * 1.8 + 32

Just want to leave this here

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And if you want to do the math fast and just get close enough, you can just do β€œdouble it and add 30”.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

its true, legs are immune to cold. shorts and a jacket is a reasonable outfit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

0C? Fellow Minnesotan here and I've definitely seen plent of people wearing shorts at temps below -5C. But I'm also in a college town so that may change things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lmao, that brings back memories of going to open gym in high school while wearing basketball shorts in -40 with my winter jacket on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The quick conversation I use is take off 30 and half the rest to go F to C or double it and add 30 to go C to F.

20C doubled is 40 and add 30. 70F

80F take off 30 is 50. Half that is 25. 25C

It's not completely accurate but close enough for conversation purposes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I learned during the polar vortices that when it's -40 out it's the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeh 0C was exactly what I thought and then you mentioned it.