I live in the United States of America, and every once in awhile, I’m interested in knowing what the weather is, or will be, like.
This first statement clearly doesn’t apply to you, British person, but I figured this second was pretty much a worldwide given regardless of living situation, class, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, or shoe size. The weather affects humans whether we humans like it or not.
I don’t live in the United Kingdom, though, and the United Kingdom is just wacky enough that I’m unsure as to whether they typically speak of temperatures in terms of Fahrenheit or Celsius (or heck, both). After all, they do use miles to measure distances sometimes (right?).
Here in the United States of America, most of us understand Fahrenheit best, and you rarely, if ever, see weather forecasts in degrees Celsius as a default (or even a supplement).
So today, when I say that the local temperature will reach about 75˚F on the high side, and translate that to approximately 24˚C, then proceed to ask which scale you typically see/understand temperatures in, “I’m not really sure” doesn’t seem to be an acceptable answer.
Ya try to learn somethin’ about the world, and instead you get a hundred-degree (but is that Celsius, or Fahrenheit?) “Really?”
