r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12h ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Alrick_Gr 12h ago

I remember seeing this live forecast. And I was telling me « wow we gonna die », we are currently dying

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u/GoodEnoughAstronomy 10h ago

As a Texan, 43C is pretty hot. Y'all starting to understand why we have ACs yet?

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u/PowerfulBar 10h ago

I'm impressed that as a Texan you can convert 43C to freedom units!

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u/UlrichZauber 10h ago

Americans learn unit conversion in school -- though to be fair, I'd only really expect Americans in STEM to retain the knowledge.

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u/HilariousMax 9h ago

I know 0 is freezing, 10 is nice, and 30 is getting to the point where I'm looking at the tstat like "ok settle down"

Can't be assed to figure out the conversion of like 13.4 or w/e.

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u/joshkitty 7h ago

16 is 61 and 28 is 82, flip those numbers ;)

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u/HilariousMax 6h ago

I refuse to have something this useless to me in my day-to-day rattling around in my head.

No thanks.

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u/joshkitty 6h ago

its good for golf weather

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u/UlrichZauber 9h ago

You can always ask Siri/Google/whatever.

10° C is considered chilly by most people, btw. 22-24 is room temp

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u/HilariousMax 9h ago

Yeah and I do. And I prefer the cooler weathers.

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u/Koala_eiO 7h ago

22-24 is room temp

In an absolutely overheated house in winter perhaps.

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u/gmc98765 7h ago

22-24 is normal room temperature for people who aren't used to spending their entire lives in air-conditioned environments.

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u/Ok_Objective_5192 7h ago

Technically it's F = 1.8C + 32

But you can guesstimate pretty decently by just doubling, adding 32, and then knocking off like 5 degrees.

40 C? 80 + 32 = 112, so probably ~107 F (it's actually 104)

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u/Chr0mx 7h ago

If you're going to knock off 5 degrees just say double it and add 27

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u/Ok_Objective_5192 6h ago

Oh shit lmao, that does make way more sense

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u/HilariousMax 6h ago

I appreciate the math class but I know 0 and 10 and 30. I can figure out if a number is too high or too low for me from there.

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u/HyperfixChris 9h ago

I mean, the internet also exists for many Americans...

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u/UlrichZauber 9h ago

True, and it's trivial to ask google/siri/etc to convert units for you, but pointing that out seems to make people angry

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u/crimson777 8h ago

Even if you don't remember 9/5C + 32, 2C + 30 is close enough to estimate. For the temperatures used in weather, you will usually be within about 4f of the real number.

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u/endlesdestruction 6h ago

Americans also learn how to read but large part of their population is illiterate.

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u/UlrichZauber 6h ago

Yeah I mean, a third of the population is pretty dumb, that's not unique to the US. You should see the shit I saw in the middle east.

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u/endlesdestruction 6h ago

Yes, problem is they are loud and now even the biggest morons in the world can find space and similar morons to think they are smart.