why do we still use temperature to measure how hot it is outside?

Question

i've noticed the same temperature feels much cooler at night than it does during the day. what's up with that? shouldn't we use wind chill factor or something to measure how how it feels outside?

but if we did, people would freak out, which is why we don't use the metric system. yet americans always put down mexican immigrants because "they don't learn our language. if i went to another country, i'd learn their language," yet you're too lazy to learn another way to measure distance or temperature?? yeah, sure. ok, a little tangent there.

i think it was pretty obvious how i went from "temperatures are obsolete" to "stupid americans." learn to read, maybe?

Answer 1

Well, we could use length, but that would be kind of silly.

Answer 2

You're right when you talk about a little tangent. We use temperature to measure heat because that's what temperature is. A measure of heat. If you were to measure how hot everybody feels, it would take all day. Some people feel hotter than others at any given time. When you say "we" don't use the metric system, you seem to forget that this is an international site. "We" in Australia do use the metric system. It's easy to remember that at sea level, the freezing point of water is 0 and the boiling point is 100. I still haven't figured out the temperature of twice as cold as 0 degrees is. But I am pretty lazy.

Answer 3

Evaporation of water vapor from your skin is what you feel at night. Relative humidity determines rate of water absorption not dry bulb temperature. You may freak out by using the metric system, buy I've been using it for thirty years. I also use many other measurement and counting systems that may freak you out. All immigrants to any county have an obligation to learn the local language. Unwillingness to learn another "system" is not laziness. Are you willing to learn how to use a slide rule or master the hexadecimal system, or use reverse polish notation, or weigh ourselves in stones and measure distance in hands?

Answer 4

I believe that the American systems are still used because of the stubborness factor. People would rather just take what they're given by their teachers and parents instead of learning something new which is more acurate, more natural, and more world-wide.

Celcius is very simple to understand. 0 means water freezes. 100 means water boils. And since water is vital to human life and is a main component of weather, it just makes sense.

When you add in "the windchill factor" or the "humidex", like many Canadian weather reports do, you end up with an accurate measurement of how cold or hot in feels.

Answer 5

No, it's not obvious. Windchill has nothing to do with metric or English measurements. It has to do with thermodynamics. Moreover, windchill is ONLY applicable to YOUR perception of temperature, not the actual temperature.

Had you learned your physics, you would have known the difference.

And, for places where it makes a difference, windchill is reported during the weather segment. However, in Los Angeles, the windchill is rather meaningless

Answer 6

I went to another country, learned the language, AND the metric system.

But, in the U.S., I use what everyone else uses: English, and the Fahrenheit scale for temperatures, Imperial system for volume & weight.

Oh, and, I put down anyone who sneaks in and attaches himself to our Welfare system without having been invited to do so.

Answer 7

Temperature is an objective measurement of how how it is, not subject to how you 'feel' about it, and wind chill IS usually measured and reported, that's the only reason you know about it!

Answer 8

How do you justify going from "temperatures are obsolete" to "stupid Americans"?

Answer 9

do you have a better way