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Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
In India there is a running joke amongst physics teachers/professors that whenever a student forgets to write unit of measurement of the final answers they are mocked by saying 120 degrees what ? Banana ? Apple ? Centigrade ? Applies to this title too.
Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric. The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
Engineers, Scientists, Mechanics, Carpenters, etc.
Scrolling through the tweets, some people are saying it's likely a short spike in temperature due to foehn winds[0] and that this reading doesn't really mean much due to the source of the reading. Here's an interesting thread nitpicking things apart[1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
[1] https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1425424519129407489
Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric. The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
meters are used too. On roads you have longer distance in miles, but width, weight and short distance in meters. Many rural areas in Wales have signs "120m to beach".
Large parts of MENA are already de facto lawless areas, where the official government doesn't exert any meaningful control, due to political factors.
Now throw in deadly year-round climates on top.
Every piece of land on this planet is claimed as sovereign territory by one state or another, except Antarctica.
What if millions of square miles of land become progressively climate no man's lands? Will local governments even bother claiming these lands for themselves?
Lest most of the comments continue to be by people demonstrating how smart they are to realize that the scale must be Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. (And I'm saying that as someone from Europe who grew up with Celsius.)
Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric. The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.
> I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature
because you shouldnt? it is a world standard.
Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric. The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
Me, when the term “degrees” is used without further clarification.