• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:

    • 10c = 50f
    • 30c = 86f

    Edit: I’d like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I’m a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C

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        And if you want to do the math fast and just get close enough, you can just do “double it and add 30”.

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      0C? Fellow Minnesotan here and I’ve definitely seen plent of people wearing shorts at temps below -5C. But I’m also in a college town so that may change things.

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        I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

        Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

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        Lmao, that brings back memories of going to open gym in high school while wearing basketball shorts in -40 with my winter jacket on

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      I learned during the polar vortices that when it’s -40 out it’s the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit

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      The quick conversation I use is take off 30 and half the rest to go F to C or double it and add 30 to go C to F.

      20C doubled is 40 and add 30. 70F

      80F take off 30 is 50. Half that is 25. 25C

      It’s not completely accurate but close enough for conversation purposes.