the US uses mostly Farenheit to measure the weather. however, scientists almost always use the Celsius scale in their work.
why is this so???
2006-11-12 12:53:59 · 4 answers · asked by killy 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Celsius is the world meteorological standard. Kelvins are the scientific standard. Fahrenheit is a non-standard and archaic unit used by Americans only.
2006-11-12 13:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by dunc1ca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not perfect gave you a pretty good answer.
Only the US uses fahrenheit to measure temperature, and even then it is only for weather. Scientists all around the world including the US exclusively use Celsius or Kelvin, because metric is more logical and is understood all around the world. Aviation temperatures (dew points, engine temperatures etc) are also in metric, even in the US.
Billions of people around the world use metric, why can't we switch in the US? Perhaps a resistance to change, but there is certainly no technical reason that we in the US shouldn't be going fully metric.
2006-11-12 21:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by minefinder 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because most people in the US are used to referring to the Farenheit scale and it's nearly impossible to get about 300 million people to change their ways.
Scientists, on the other hand, are trying to use units of measurement (including temperature) that are easily understood throughout the scientific community. It is a scientific standard.
2006-11-12 20:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most of the world has switched to the Celsius scale.
All scientific work is done using the metric system Because once you learn it it is much simpler that the old
Fahrenheit system.
2006-11-12 21:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by teddybear 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋