• lime!
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    10 days ago

    what Fahrenheit used for his endpoints was 1) the melting point of a brine mixture that he didn’t write down the ratio of, and 2) his wife’s armpit.

    those “bulb” things is something i only ever hear of from americans. it’s never used here.

    and I fail to see how two numbers are somehow differently intuitive. they are just numbers. also, 36.5 is too low. it’s pretty much 37.0 now, because average body temp has interestingly enough shifted since he took those measurements.

    • @Voyajer
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      710 days ago

      What does Europe use for apparent temperature measurement then? Just humidity and not evaporation?

      • lime!
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        210 days ago

        temperature, wind speed and direction, and humidity are given separately. regular news report style forecasts don’t give humidity at all.