# 0 degrees F
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [January 31, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221 "2014-01-31T18:26:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221/41 "2014-02-13T22:36:13Z")
I just checked, and my mouth temperature is 310.15K
OH MY GOD I HAVE A FEVER!
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### Author:  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221/42 "2014-02-14T17:22:52Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> I just checked, and my mouth temperature is 310.15K, OH MY GOD I HAVE A FEVER!
Way to go, **Yossarian**
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### Author:  [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221/43 "2014-02-14T18:37:21Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#):
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> See I don’t understand Fahrenheit. Celcius just has a narrower range. So for me, when I hear the weather forecast…
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> 0-5 overnight is bloody cold and means I’ll have ice on the windscreen in the morning.
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> \<15 top temp is a jacket or jumper.
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> around 25, give or take a few degrees is damn near perfect for relaxing.
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> 28-33 is swimming weather.
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> \>35 is getting ready to turn on the air con.
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> \> 40, air con better be going and the beer cold
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> \>45 (which is 113 F) I’m not going outside unless it starts raining naked supermodels and then I’m only going far enough to grab the closest couple and drag them inside.
The only part of the “English” system of measurement that makes any sense is
Fahrenheit. The question “On a scale of 0-100, 0 being the coldest you have ever felt, 100 being the warmest, what would you estimate the temperature to be?” would yield an answer in +/- 5 degrees Fahrenheit for a majority of people in the US, and Europe, whether they understood the Fahrenheit scale or not.
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### Author:  [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221/44 "2014-02-14T22:46:35Z")
> [@tonyfop](#):
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> The only part of the “English” system of measurement that makes any sense is
> Fahrenheit. The question “On a scale of 0-100, 0 being the coldest you have ever felt, 100 being the warmest, what would you estimate the temperature to be?” would yield an answer in +/- 5 degrees Fahrenheit for a majority of people in the US, and Europe, whether they understood the Fahrenheit scale or not.
Why would you think that?
Everyone I know would give an answer in Celsius/Centigrade. Today the temperature has been around 3 to 6 degrees. No one would say 40 degrees. 40 degrees is bloody hot around here.
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### Author:  [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/0-degrees-f/680221/45 "2014-02-14T23:18:20Z")
> [@bob\_2](#):
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> Why would you think that?
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> Everyone I know would give an answer in Celsius/Centigrade.
Read again the posting to which you responded.
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