P sure I talked about this a bit before, but it came back to my mind and I had to actually write it out.
A Better Temperature System xanthir.com/b58m0
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One thing I like about °C is that it's a good match for the minimum perceivable increment. I can tell the difference (maybe not reliably) between a room heated to 19°C versus 20°C. @tabatkins argues that increment should be bigger, but I think °C is about right.
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That said, there's also disagreement on whether the minimum perceivable increment should be valued as 1, 5, or 10...
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I also think the description of temperate climates has a regional bias. Interior North America is quite unusual globally in its summer versus winter temperature variation; only interior north Asia (Siberia, central Asia, Mongolia, inland north China, etc.) is comparable.
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A map showing this is old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comment…
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Parts of the US are even weirder for their ratio of rainfall in the wettest month to the driest month (normalized to 30-day months). There's a band running from Louisiana to New Brunswick where the ratio is basically the lowest in the world; rainfall close to equal each month.
Sep 22, 2020 · 7:17 PM UTC
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