how fahrenheit fails you
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The Fahrenheit versus Celsius debate has plagued the internet since the start... but what if it misses the whole point? In this video, Sabrina explores the invention of temperature, learns how other meteorological metrics impact how we feel in the heat (or cold), and finally learns how to dress for the weather.
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00:00 an introduction that is only slightly hyperbolic
00:17 thank you to 3M for sponsoring this video
00:43 fahrenheit, i hardly know 'er height!
01:32 sabrina jumps to bizarre research conclusion
01:42 how temperature was invented
02:26 the first thermometers in history
03:22 Fahrenheit versus Celsius: which one is better?
03:59 NEITHER! U JUST GOT PRANKED!!
04:20 what does humidity actually mean?
04:56 Sabrina makes a fool of herself in front of several people she respects
06:00 my last 2 brain cells put this plan together
06:17 how weather apps get their numbers
07:17 why i need to build a weather station
07:42 why i can't build a weather station
09:52 why i'm doing it anyway
11:44 how AIP is becoming a champion
13:22 sabrina goes outside
14:13 a silly mistake followed by a minor breakdown
15:02 making an infographic because i don't want to internalize what i learned
16:09 an outdoor guide for indoor kids
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Welcome to the joke under the fold!
Anders Celsius died at the age of 42. That's 107 years Fahrenheit.
Leave a comment with the word FAHRENHEIT to let me know you were here ;-)
Before y'all bring up Kelvin: Yes. It is the best but also, u really think Homo "Can't Perceive the Massive Difference Between Million and Billion And It's Ruining Society" Sapiens are really going to be able to intuitively grasp a Kelvin scale in daily life any more than Celsius just because some engine is acting a lil ideal?
I for one am upset you didn’t bring up Rankine!
Lol fair enough
solar insensity
No, but Kelvin (or some other scale where 0 means 0) is still the best.
I'd say Kelvin is only the best for science purposes. For everyday stuff it just makes the number unnecessarily large.
Kelvin is the only correct answer. It's a lovely summers 300 K day, or a freezing 273 K day. It's very intuitive once you grow up with it.
scientifically absolute temperature
“Mom, can we use Celsius for these calculations”
“Nah we have Celsius at the lab”
(Celsius at the lab: Kelvin)
I thought of that too, when I saw the video title!
Yeah I grew up with Celsius and it's very intuative for me
I wanna make a new measure of temperature and call it Brian. Then we'd have Kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Brian.
Your friends really just said “go touch grass” didn’t they
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Books are great and all, but that grass isn't real grass... Please go outside!
I'm Australian. We converted most units to metric decades ago. Most of it made things easier and people quickly got a sense for what the units meant for everyday use. But the change from Fahrenheit to Celsius was the most difficult. I found myself constantly converting back to F to get a 'feel' for the forecast weather. That was, until I heard a simple little ditty that made sense of it all. It went: - The cold singles - the cool teens - the temperate twenties - the torrid thirties - the fierce forties. After that I could think easily in C. It's a more poetic version of 'look at the big number".
It’s been a bit more than a few decades. Over 50 years ago. I was so young at the time I never knew anything other than metric. My only exposure to Fahrenheit was the oven and my mothers 1960’s edition of the Womens Weekly cooking book. Fahrenheit for me is just a US based problem now since the rest of the world uses metric.
i like how an australian comedian living in the states put it: "fahrenheit is better; 100 is really hot, 80 is still pretty hot" LOL
Interesting. Didn't know Australia used metric. For me as someone born with metric, its impossible for me to understand why is hard to get C. 0 is where the water freezes, 100 is where it boils. Combine that with other general knowledge such as human body has around 36*C, and you can easily understand which temperature is comfortable and which not.
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@@0311mitzaAustralia is one of the most metric countries on earth, we fully committed in the 1970s, before I was born. Even most people would give their height in centimetres before feet/inches. And when Americans give the temperature I have to convert to Celsius because I don't have a feel for Fahrenheit
Idk if other countries do it, but over here we get two measurements from the weather stations. The actual temperature and it feels like temperature. Helps a bunch
Idk if other countries do it, but over here we get two measurements from the weather stations. The actual temperature and it feels like temperature. Helps a bunch
The what it feels like depends on other factors like wind, humidity and rain
@@generalaswalter5394 yeah, but they already take those measurements and give you the number
alternative title: *Sabrina doesn’t exactly understand the big number in her weather app so she builds a weather station that reports the exact same thing*
Lmfaooo you didn’t have to do Sabrina like that 😭😭
@@khalilahd. nah... they're right 😭😭
@@khalilahd. I mean, she litraly calls herself out this exact way in the vid...
No you missed the point. It's about the small numbers as well
@@soundninja99 but like, it still says the exact same thing as her weather app...
If you want to learn Celsius, all you need to know is this rhyme:
- 0 is freezing
- 10 is not
- 20 is pleasing
- 30 is hot
you’re welcome
if you want to learn fahrenheit for some reason (for most people)
- below 50 is coldish
- 60 is nice
- 70/80 is kinda hot
90+ is hot
at least according to my parents lmao, we live in new england
Unless you live in a tropical country where 30 is normal, 40 is hot, and anything below 20 is cold
@@reluctantcrusader8455 depends on their own pref
@@reluctantcrusader8455 TRUE
"30 is hot" me near the equator: 👁️👄👁️
“The sun is hot, so being in the sun makes us feel hot.”
I have learned a lot today
I love this channel because half of the time it's like some cookie-cutter history/science education channel that I do find quite entertaining, and the other half is Sabrina being really funny
It's a comedy channel hidden behind an educational channel and I love it
hi sabrina, the idea of calibrating yourself using a local weather station is moot since the margin of error on that $3 thermometer and the margin of error on that $12 sensor that you got off the internet is probably going to make the reading so inaccurate that using your phone would've just been better
jokes aside, the video was really great - always love the twists and turns :D
🤣 I came looking for this! 😂
Agree, but she literally said that in the video tho
@@GvinahGui thats the joke lol
@@GvinahGui Word for word, what are the chances?
I love how this video went from "is Celsius actually better" to "I need to touch grass" ALARMINGLY quickly.
THIS
I really lol'ed
"... Did exercise. Regretted exercise..."
I hate it when its 0K, people and stuff starts disappearing into nowhere and are never seen again.
Loved how this video evolved from blaming the scales to "hey, it was a me problem"
Also there's this thing that helps you carry stuff, it's called a backpack where you carry the extra layers. If still stubborn, try "weird combos" shorts and sweaters or pants and shirts, just so one part is hot and the other cold.
Sabrina: *asks question*
Still Sabrina: *answers different question*
As you do.
And Im 100% here for it
the new vsauce
@@mastershooter64 Hey! Answer in Progress! Sabrina here. What if temperature is just...made up?
the first question’s answer is still in progress
Personal opinion: doesn't matter the scale, it ends up being subjective. A person who grew up in tropical weather will shiver at 25 C. A person who grew up in dry heat / cold will complain at the magnification due to humidity (looking at your Toronto and Vietnam). I grew up with Celsius, learned to convert to Fahrenheit due to gaming with Americans and their love of freedom units. Visited relatives in Vietnam who had a completely different scale of hot and cold. Live in Alberta, where we can get snow 12 months of the year (yes, that includes the summer months of May to August) and where weather changes in a literal blink of your eyes. Temperature dropping to 10 C is freezing during summer, but blissfully warm coming out of a freeze of -15 C and below. Temperature systems give us a common vocabulary to complain about the weather. What makes sense is what you grow up with.
and common vocabulary to complain about its common vocabulary! thanks for your comment. I enjoyed reading it.
Exactly! Of course your body acclimatises after a couple of weeks in a new climate, but your idea of what number is cold and hot is is entirely based off of your own perceptions growing up.
I spent almost two months in the UK in the winter, my body acclimatised after two or three weeks, and after I set the thermostat to 21°C and I felt that as a really hot temperature it baffled me, because I come from tropical Brazil, 21°C would be a "cold" night in my city.
From that point forward I consider temperature to be just a number, and I follow my instincts... My hands are currently cold in 26°C weather, but I know sometimes I can endure 14°C in shorts, T-Shirt and flip-flops... And sometimes I don't, so I don't even bother trying too much, I just try dressing based of my previous experiences and if it doesn't work out I'll dress differently the next day.
You're absolutely right!!! I live in Thailand and I don't check the weather because It's always hot like hell and I don't care if it's gonna rain even if I bring an umbrella I'm still wet lol.
this guy gets it
I live in Mississippi and I’ve worn a jacket outside in 85°F weather
Wow nobody explained Fahrenheit to me like this before!
I moved to USA from Europe 6 months ago and I'm really tired of trying to convert to Celcium all the time.
0 to 100 as min and max makes so much sense! Thank you 😊
it can go below 0 and it can go above 100.. they're not min and max lol
@@user-kg7zr3yl3n i know but you really face temperature below 0 and above 100. it helps for intuitive understanding
@@user-kg7zr3yl3nyes but the distinction between temperatures once you exeed that range stops mattering from a "how does it feel" perspective as your pain receptors are firing. (It matters from a clinical perspective in avoiding heat stroke or frostbite)
100°F is also supposed to be human body temp (the actual range of values is just under 100°)
6:00 I actually made a spreadsheet for how to dress for cold weather when I worked the night shift for a job during winter where I'd have to be a few hours outside every shift. If I got my drip wrong, it sucked; I would either feel too cold or too hot. I had everything on there, how many layers of pants to wear, how many layers of sweaters, like six different kinds of gloves including mittens, buffs, face masks, hats, socks, it was gnarly. It took a while but I damn near reached perfection. I quickly learned that the "feels like" temperature was more reliable. I had the chart in kelvins, rankines, degrees celsius, and degrees fahrenheit, as well as dozenal, heximal, and decimal.
It makes sense that Fahrenheit gives you a 0 to 100 scale of how hot it is outside, but if you didn't grow up with the scale, you still don't know what the numbers really mean. This shows that the best "every day" temperature scale is always the one you're familiar with.
Yeah for day to day use, neither really is better than the other in my opinion, if you're doing science, then celsius or kelvin is probably ideal, but for day to day use, whatever you grew up with is best
At -40 they both get along anyway.
Sabrina's comment about 0 being a really cold day and 100 being a really hot day made Fahrenheit make a lot of sense, for a very brief moment. Then I remembered that room temperature is around 70 °F (when intuitively it should be 50) and it felt weird again.
@@hoodiesticks general room temperature varies depending on where you are in the US. For the south it may be 80 (which is fairly hot) and in more northern areas it could be 55-60, which is warm-ish?
@@hoodiesticks For me I view it like 70%, that's a C, an average grade.
Honestly humidity is the one deciding factor on whether you will be able to stand the weather or not. I could happily sit in 30o weather if the humidity was low but so help me god in 20o when my sweat starts sticking to me
Also love how your method in this video was literally just touch grass
This is so so true. I used to live in Arizona and the 100 degree weather didn’t bother me but when I moved to NY and NJ the humidity was suffocating and way more unbearable 😭
Yep!
I was at a festival the other day. It was only 21°C but I felt nauseous and passed out.
I also spent the day surrounded on all sides by people who were also spending the whole day dancing in a walled off tent.
It was 30% humidity outside but inside?
It really taught me to consider humidity.
Good weather apps also include "xx°C, feels like yy°C" and that second temperature takes humidity, cloudiness and wind into account in order to give a "feeling" temperature.
I prefer higher humidity tbh
To be fair, a lot of problems can be resolved by touch grass lmao
The line "The problem isn't Celsius, it's me; and the fact I don't have enough experience GOING OUTSIDE!" made me laugh so hard and I also instantly thought "SAME!"
Fr though, the way you make these videos resonates with me so much and my brain just understands them!
Your transitions are incredible; loved it when you finished a sentence in a new scene. Very cool video all around
First half of the video: how Celsius failed Sabrina
Second half: How Sabrina fails herself
Also: What she did about it.
weather is also perceived differently depending on where you live. when you said 12°C is "you might need a sweater" I laughed out loud because for me 12°C is "this is the day I die frozen"
While to me, who lives in tropical and humid region, 12C is barely cold.
me who gets -25 degrees celsius
yeah and for me 12 c is relatively warm lol
Where i grew up 12°C meant you could start wearing T-shirts and heck maybe even a pair of shorts 😭
@@delbrooke7655 Same
Celsius:
Water boils at 100°, freezes at 0°
0-5: very cold
6-10: cold
11-15: chilly
12-20: good and comfortable
21-25: warm
26-30: HOT
31+: very uncomfortable
I've finally gotten around to watching this, and I just want to let you know I appreciate your chapter names :D the video is also awesome
As a Canadian, the freezing point of water is so important for making sense of weather, that I cannot imagine using a system that is not centred on that temperature.
You literally have to remember 1 number.
It's not that fucking hard.
Get over yourself.
I understand your point but the only time it’s important is when you’re near the freezing temperature. So it doesn’t really matter as long as you know when the water will freeze. I live in Alaska so my experience is probably similar to yours. I use Fahrenheit. I just know if it’s below 32 it’s icy. Other than that it’s all about previous experience. I like Fahrenheit for the 0 being really cold and 100 being really hot aspect. I like Celsius for chemistry class when I’m dealing with both freezing and boiling liquids.
@@rivermahugh4575 I think it really depends on the country. In France, I feel like 0°C (32°F) is really a "symbolic" temperature meaning "REALLY cold", and it's close to the coldest i've ever seen (actually the coldest i've ever seen was -8°C, or 18°F, but may be because I've only lived in Metropolitan France for 3.5 years, I used to live in French Guiana where 20°C/68°F is already too cold to ever happen as well as 35°C/95°F being too hot to ever happen)
As a Canadian, wouldn't you be more concerned about when the salt truck stops being able to melt the roads AKA -21 C?
celcius is perfect you know once it goes below 0 it snows and if it goes above 0 it rains it makes way more sense then ferinheight
I learned to touch a sun-exposed window in the morning and dress accordingly. You get the visual of looking outside and the tactile sense of ambient air temperature with a hint of solar intensity (which forecasts the heat of the early afternoon, but I’d still be indoors, and my concern was not being cold in the morning).
Sabrina, I need you to know this video spoke to my soul. Despite existing on earth for over 3 decades I also lack an internal number/sensation correlation. So in order to build an app to tell me what to wear, I built an app to collect the data on what I think I should wear given the current weather conditions. …I’m still collecting data. Because 1, I also don’t go outside enough, and B I struggle to remember to use the app when I do.
I was the little girl who loved legos and robots, but I never really had the ability to learn about engineering except through trial and error. I joined FIRST robotics in high school, but the combination of being the only girl and being a little bit behind everyone else meant I was usually excluded from actually building the robot and given jobs like making posters or the bumpers for the robot. I wasn’t learning anything and it really turned me off of the subject. I’ve found another topic which I’m very passionate about, but I couldn’t help but think about the little girl who just really wanted to engineer a robot but nobody was willing to teach her how during the champion portion of the video.
FRC gang 😎😎
I come from a very similar background but instead did VEX robotics (FRC isn't very popular in the UK). I joined my robotics club long after everyone else did so I was behind and quite honestly I never caught up. I was mostly the pack donkey tbh though I didn't mind completely as at the end of the day I was there for the people as the club taught me how to socialise. Though I don't necessarily identify as such, there were other girls at the club which was helpful, though I don't think this affected me too much due to my experience of gender. I did have a champion who was my engineering teacher who was basically a man child but had the charisma and networking to keep us motivated and funded. There was also sixth formers that were very helpful. The entire club was all years (11-18yro) so there was a culture of (reluctant) teaching available and cross-year teams. It was an interesting place during it's prime yrs and you could probably write a sitcom about it. It did change after a few years as people left and of course the rona but it did inspire me to pick engineering as a subject for sixth form which has eventually led to me choosing to do Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a degree. I find the differences and similarities of our situations quite interesting tbh.
That's fucked up. I'm sorry that happened to you at such a formative age.
☹️ I hate stories like these, they treated you so poorly! *hug*
I kinda went through the same thing during my time in FIRST. I'm so sorry that this happened to you! :(( It's absolutely despicable how those were the tasks given to you. I hope that now, you are able to explore the field without any discrimination or anything holding you back!
i'm crying at the expert's opinions literally being "you need to touch some grass". my weather trick has always been opening the window and standing in front of it and getting dressed off of how that feels.
Yeah, that's how I do it as well. If the temperature is ambiguous (because it'S not freezing or hot outside), I open the window, wait a minute or two and then dress based on what it felt like (with the additional benefit of seeing whether its cloudy or rainy and if it's humid or not).
me too. i just step out to my balcony and feel if i gotta wear short sleeves or long sleeves, and look at the sky to see if i need to bring an umbrella.
then double check with my city’s government’s own weather app to make sure i’m well-equipped.
This. It's also a lot simpler than building a table or a weather station.
Ähm? I am able to see if it's windy, rainy, foggy, dry cloudless without opening the window and matching that with the temperature i see that's enough, i don't need to try with the open window our hop outside the door. Maybe it's a long term memory problem for people...
I just put on shorts and a t-shirt bc if it's too cold to wear that, where I live, it's a bad day to go outside
That STEM champion sounds like a mentorship. Which I totally would've loved as a kid. I did have a robotics club in high school, which helped, but it was more "Figure out how to put these two things together, ok byeee!~"
10:58 The idea of calibrating yourself using a local weather station is moot since the margin of error on that three dollar thermometer and the margin of error on that 12 dollar sensor that you got off the internet is probably going to make the reading so inaccurate that using your phone would have just been better.
Sabrina: I'm worried about becoming a caricature of myself
Also Sabrina: Let's make an infographic to tell me what to do
Its not a caricature of herself tho
Thats a photorealistic caricature xDDD
Celsius is easier for me because of a saying I heard before " 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cold, and 0 is ice," so I know that if it is reaching 30, it's gonna be warm or hot depending on the humidity that day and the rest is self-explanatory.
Edit: It also depends on where you are in the world. Some people are more acclimated to hot or cold climates, so the numbers slide up or down by about 5 to 10 and more degrees.
20's still too warm for me. 15 is nice.
But still, celsius has always been fairly intuitive to me. Not that it helps when you don't check the weather forecast...
@@MALEXISAL Yeah, that's fair. I just based mine on humidity and other factors than the numbers themselves. I just use the numbers as guidelines. Nothing is really set in stone for something that changes all the time, like the weather.
As an American, you have finally made Celsius make some usable sense to me!
@@MALEXISAL as a person living in the Philippines, 20 is turtleneck weather for me. 15 is im bringing a coat today
@@MALEXISAL Yeah about 23 is my limit as well.
Your videos are really entertaining. You go on an entire adventure to show us something new or something we never asked ourselves or could not get an answer for. Tysm
We've only just met but you are now my champion. What an awesome channel, looking forward to digging into the rest of your projects.
The sun…is hot. And being in the sun makes you FEEL hot. Definitely the educational content that I subscribed for
But why is it hot? Because of infrared radiation!
The sun is a deadly laser
@@jasminfrey8305 oh no not ☢️RaDiAtIoN☢️. dO yOu WaNt Us To DiE?
-Every boomer ever.
Probably
That's why you should only go to the sun at night.
@@g.seangourlay2593 No, the sun is not a dadly lazer.
But we can make it so!
My weather app has a "real-feel" metric that gives a perceived temp and not a measured one and living in a humid climate has saved my butt a few times
As someone who lives in georgia, I need this. GA's baseline YEARLY humidity starts at 60% lmfao
In Spain, weather reports on TV always give real temp, and temp sensation, but I don't watch TV, so I just go to the balcony feel it for a second and decide.
Old-school, my parents had a heat index chart on the fridge.
This! My app has that. It may be 15C in the shade but wind and humidity might make it feel like 8C.
@@nena5518 I like this, but it's a bit confusing since every weather condition necessarily feels like itself. When it's 15C it has to feel like 15C with whatever the other actual conditions are (wind, humidity etc), but maybe it feels like an 8C with some other humidity. In principle surely the "feels-like" humidity and wind speed should be given along with the temperature
I would pay good money to have a motion design course hosted by Sabrina. The motion design in this video was 🔥
I grew up with fahrenheit, but i keep my weather app in celcius to get used to it. I generally use this to determine how i should dress.
30: too damn hot
that depends if it's inside or outside. 20°C inside is cold. at 18°C I'll probably put on the heater.
as a brazillian, for me is more like
-11 = cold asf
11-14 = cold
15-19 = cool
20-25 = warm
26-30 = hot
31+ = damn hot
@@iJuulia as a brazilian who hates cold, I would say:
Every time I hear someone try to explain the benefits of Fahrenheit, they lose me at "imagine 0 is one of the coldest days you can have". The coldest days I've experienced have been below -40F. The scale just isn't designed with my climate in mind. At least when it's below 0C I know it's going to snow.
And for people from tropical countries where the temperatures rarely go below 12°C (53.6°F). On the other hand, everyone knows how cold ice is and how hot boiling water is.
@@ricardoalexisnolazcocontre9110 yeah, that’s a particularly good point. My city is experiencing its coldest winter in my lifetime, and I’m complaining about how cold our 8c mornings are
@@ricardoalexisnolazcocontre9110 but boiling water hurts and is not regularly touched
Fahrenheit is a scale based on average danger to people. 0 is the threshold where it starts to become dangerous to be outside, and same with 100. That’s why it’s the best. In every other way freedom units are worse but I will defend Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit was based on a pretty arbitrary scale, TBH, 0-100 lining up with weather conditions in a temperate climate are just a bonus.
Below 0°C it might snow, below 0°F it's probably too cold to snow.
My favorite thing about every video is how this channel shows how people can act on shower thoughts to tackle questions everyone has had but no one to answer. Just because a question or feeling seems small, it doesn't mean that it isn't worth understanding. As a teacher, it's important to encourage curiosity and that's the epitome of this channel. I love it!
@@ArdePiertje Agreed, now if only the school system can catch up with this comment.
I clicked on this thinking it was gonna be some ragebait based on the thumbnail but it surprised me how much fun it turned out to be to watch. I will definitely watch some of your other videos
I was born in a place ranging from -3 to 32 degrees Celsius and never had any problems understanding the weather by the number. The only problem I had is weather changing drastically throughout the day, making the perfectly fitting clothes I was wearing, suddenly to warm or not warm enough.
This is so mood. I live in Finland, so in Autumn and Spring the weather can vary from like -5 to 10 from morning to afternoon so yea clothing is sometimes hard :))
@@ami1959 put some sudden rain on top of it to make it perfect haha
I was scammed by expecting a celcius vs farenhieght video but ended up caught up in sabrina's existential crisis and lack of outdoor experience. Would do it again 10/10
3:26 "Fahrenheit is probably the most intuitive because most of us are already familiar with it."
*Looks at how many countries use Fahrenheit*
I think he meant the US by us
I had the same reaction
Misinterpreted the question - ignore this
-Marques Brownlee is American. She was asking Marques about his experience with temperature. He spoke from that perspective. Why would you think any of those being interviewed (except the meteorologist) were framing things in a continental instead of regional perspective?-
That’s not was she said, “most of us are already familiar with a 0-100 scale,” not the Fahrenheit scale. When talking about weather, you practically only use ~50 degrees on the Celsius scale but ~100 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.
@@Hornet135 My bad, I was thinking of 5:22, not the clip in the original post. I have no idea why she said that, unless she too was expecting most of her audience to be American.
AMAZING VIDEO i love the music, sound effects and editing. its so nice i cant focus on the subject lmao
I’m originally from the States, but I’ve lived abroad in Canada and Australia for most of my adult life, and weirdly temperature is the one aspect of metric that I haven’t been able to fully convert to yet. I think 100% in kilometers now, and stuff, but for some reason I just can’t make the switch in my brain to Celsius. I still have to do the conversions in my head
As someone raised on Farenheit, I recently learned an intuitive way to think about Celsius (from @polýMATHY here on TH-cam).
30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cool
0 is ice
It's not perfect, and doesn't include extreme temperatures (or below zeros for those of us with actual winters), but it's a useful calibration tool for me as I'm trying to learn to intuit both temperature metrics.
I was looking for this comment. Thanks! (I recently watched that polymathy video to try to improve my own intuitive understanding of temperatures)
The rhyme I learned to do the same is:
30 is hot
20 is pleasing
10 is not
and 0 is freezing
The rhythm really makes it stick for me.
If you understand the difference between increments of 10 above zero you can apply the same logic to increments of 10 below zero as well. One of the memetics I've heard people use to explain it to Americans also had is 40 is frying, 50 is dying.
And 40 will cook you alive
i'm from brazil and for here it checks out!
Having paid close attention to the weather, and living in Scotland (thus using Celsius), I've determined a better metric than temperature is the calendar: if the day ends in a Y then I'm too hot.
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Even in January????
And not in March, April, June, August, September, October, November, December???
@@deki9827 Ummm I dont know if this is a r/woosh moment or not... but well, "if the DAY ends in a Y then I'm too hot." emphasis on day not month. Hope that helps.
I travel a lot and I'm really used to the Celcius scale, I can kind of tell how the weather outside will feel based on humidity and temperature. I guess it really comes down to how much experience you have with the different temperatures, wind, humidity etc, cause after you've experienced a few different temps, you can kinda guess how it'll feel based on the cool little numbers on the weather app
This has quickly become one of my favourite channels on TH-cam. Love everything you make
Internet: Celsius is superior to Fahrenheit for calculating the weather
Sabrina: actually they're both sort of useless to know how to dress
Internet: what are you talking about, just look at the big number
Sabrina: ...maybe I'm the one who's broken
In my (Celsius-using) opinion Celsius isn't inherently better than Fahrenheit, but since everyone's using it and it's no worse for weather than Fahrenheit, AND it's better to understand Kelvin that way, I think the USofA, the Cayman Islands and Liberia should just convert.
@@Smona Here’s the thing: what if we want to annoy the world with different measurement systems
@@Smona in what universe does Celsius help you understand kelvin? Sure, the size of each degree is the same, and they line up, but how does 30C = 303.15k mean anything to anyone?
Also, "it's no worse for weather"? You're metric brain is showing. It's absolutely worse for weather. All the God damn decimal points you'd run into because Celsius so ungodly imprecise is just downright annoying.
Fahrenheit is better.
1.8 times better, to be exact.
@@Smonaheres the thing about Kelvin, Rankine exists making it a silly argument.
Rankine is Fahrenheit spacing starting at absolute zero so to convert K to °R just multiply by 1.8.
Kelvin is just more famous since everyone is forced to use SI for science in school. (This is a good thing, US Customary units are convenient individually but have terrible conversion factors compared to metric which has designed values and no conversions, just prefixes that theoretically could be used with US units but for some reason the kilofoot feels cursed.)
Just look at the number "feels like" that most weather apps provide. It uses all the data like temperature, humidity, wind, sunlight.
Exactly! This will always be the most accurate representation of the temperature for you.
Do any of the state what humidity, wind and sunlight levels they assume for the feels-like to feel like itself?
Some weather reports (I'm on Texas, USA) now have both a "RealFeel"/"Feels Like" alternate AND a "Feels Like In The Shade" number, even.
This is the most relatable video i've seen in a long time. Love this channel!
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You and me both with the circuits, Sabrina.
That’s why I’m going to learn electronics soon 😃
Very few people who grew up on °c would consider the seemingly random °f numbers to be vaguely intuitive.
And no one that grew up on F would consider the utterly random numbers and endless decimal places of C to be vaguely useful.
Seriously, how can you people function on a scale where a difference of just 3 degrees can make the difference between needing pants and a sweater and needing shorts and a tank top?
Celsius is laughably imprecise. The degrees are just too damn big.
@@GeneralNickles Both are arbitrary scales, one based on the boiling point of water and the other on the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride. Both were pretty inaccurate temperature scales, which is why they were both changed to be defined by Kelvin.
On the point to what is better for 'weather measurement', it's all depends on what you grew up with. You just learn to pretty much know the difference of 25º C and 30º C, not sure how adding more in-between numbers would help anything, but then i grew up with it.
@@GeneralNickles difference between shorts and a sweater is about 10 degrees tho
@@TetsuYkt Not even remotely close. Especially not in Celsius. Hell, in Celsius, the difference is barely 2 degrees.
@@GeneralNickles I dont think you will notice the diffrence between 20°c and 21°c.
Winter Jacket below 0°c, Normal Jacket 1-14 °c 15-19°c sweater, Shorts and T-shirt after 20°c and after 30 °c its the best to wear nothing ....
I'm a big fan of the "real feel" temperature in the weather app. It seems to automatically incorporate the humidity and wind speed into a single temperature which makes it much easier to choose what to wear. This applies to both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Putting the Num/Caps/Scroll lock lights over the arrow keys is such a nice use of that space for that kind of small form factor keyboard. I prefer a full size keyboard myself, but I still think it's a cool idea.
I commute to my job by walking or biking, and it’s very easy to get a sense of the weather, especially when it is raining, it’s very easy for me to tell whether or not it is going to be cold
As an experienced software engineer, I absolutely love how you show your confusion and missteps on the technology side of things. We all experience that frequently. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or spending time on work they should have automated.
Also, building the weather station is awesome. Even if it turned out less accurate than the tools you already had, you yourself have a better understanding of what it all means. Plus it's fun!
I'm an American who converted to metric. Let me help you: Figure out what you wear at 0°C. Then, subtract one layer per 10°C. Once you get to zero layers, you start putting layers back on because you've just landed in the middle east, death valley, or the Sahara if you're not on a tropical island.
So you go out naked at some point? 🤔
Have you paid a visit to I-19?
Bro I wear two layers at 0℃, I don't think that's gonna work
@@LavaSaver same, I'm wearing the same thing at 10C as I am at 0C, it's only when it gets below about -15C that I really want more than 2 layers assuming it isn't windy.
heres my personal strategy and it mostly works
-10C - thick jacket
0C - light jacket
_10C - sweater_
20C - shirt
30C - t-shirt
40C - naked
The worst thing is, sometimes the temperature CHANGES on you! Like it switches up on you! Like I thought we were solid man! The big number in my funny little app said so!
Very unique problem I didn't imagine anybody could have, but glad you found a solution all the same.
That infographic NEEDS to be a purchasable item!
Seriously, it's gorgeous and you are absolutely leaving money on the table, not to mention the number of people leaving their houses in the wrong outfits for the weather.
Yes! I want that infographic, please Sabrina it's literally the answer 🙏
This!!! Pleaseeeeee
It's tailored specifically for her
@@inigo8740 Sooo...devise a simple questionnaire which spits out a modified version based on your responses. (Like: "Do you run hot or cold?" And/Or "Do prefer fewer thick layers or more thin layers?", "What's your favorite kind of weather?")
That would require some beta testers though. I volunteer as tribute!
We neeeeeeeeeed
I LOVE how you take things that sound simple, like "what's the weather today, do I need a jacket?" and make it as fun, entertaining, educational and...um, complicated, as humanly possible :) In terms of your personal preferences: Would you rather feel cozy/warm and risk sweating all day or would you rather feel cool/chill and risk shivering all day. I would rather risk being freezing cold for a few minutes than risk feeling even a little bit too warm for a few minutes.
I would suggest a Übergangsjacke! XD
@@lauramarschmallow2922 That would totally make sense for any normal person, which I am not: first of all I would have to carry it around and not constantly forget it somewhere, second of all I would feel too warm in the five seconds it takes me to realize I HAVE to take it off. :D
Oh MAN are you going to hate future common weather induced by climate change.
First, we need to define what weather is, and whether jackets really exist...
I usually go 15°C is fridge temperature, 20°C is cool autum, 25°C is AC temperature, and 30°C is sweltering.
Loved this vid, every day I discover yet another awesome YT channel is a good one
If people took 30 minutes to find examples of extremes and mid-points from each scale in their own lives, it would have been very simple regardless of the scale used. For instance, 40 is unbearingly hot in Celcius and 0 is, obviously, freezing. Room temperature is 25. Just these 3 is more than enough in a lot of cases. In the video, the example of "10 degrees" is given. It is right in between room temperature and freezing, so you will want to get your coat.
The problem comes from the "compactness" of Celcius. But even if Fahrenheit people argue otherwise, you don't need the difference between 54 F vs. 58 F. No one can tell that difference and it's useless anyway. So Celcius is much easier to learn as you don't have to play with a lot of numbers. 0s are freezing, 10s are cold, 20s are warm, 30s are hot, 40s are scorching hot. What does it matter if it is 23 vs 27 degrees for everyday life?
Spoken like somebody without a thermostat that works in Farenheit
I promise you a 2 degree change is noticeable, 4 degrees absolutely is
@@orangeandblack5 noticible and meaningful are not the same
@@orangeandblack5 2 degree f is roughly 1 degree c. So Celsius granularity is good enough for me.
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@@orangeandblack5 I'm pretty sure that's your brain playing tricks on you. Change the thermostat to Celsius and let's see if you will still notice the 2 degree Fahrenheit change.
Sabrina going outside to understand the weather is gen z's Ben Franklin discovering electricity.
UPDATE: I was not emotionally prepared for the size of the infographic JESUS
@@AshleyRobles Right?! "This is my flowchart for indoor kids who have to go outdoors" gurl it's not even a flowchart at this point that's just a user manual 😂
I did have a day in high school where it was a bright and sunny spring day, only slightly breezy but for whatever reason the weather was stupidly cold. 50F (~10C). In California, I have not experienced weather dissonance like that before or since.
What I got from this is “Some people need to touch grass more”.
Celsius originally was 100 freezing, 0 boiling. The guy we should thank is Carl Linnaeus, who reversed it.
He also did other stuff. :)
Sadly he didn't have his hands in the Farenheit scale
damn, by taht logic its currently hot af here (its -28 lmao)
"He also did other stuff." 🤣👍🙈
qww
I don't know why the 'He also did other stuff' makes me think of Helen Keller. Did you know she was eugenicist?
"It's zero degrees Celsius" looks outside and sees the lakes are frozen
"It's fifty degrees Celsius " looks outside sees forest fires . Celsius is the easiest and simplest metric
"It's hundred degrees Celsius"
Looks outside and dies
Nope. 150°? That's 150% hot. Stay inside or suffer the fury of Satan's asshole after taco bell.
*ranking nervously sitting in the corner*
Nah it's gotta be a bit lower than 0 celsius for the lakes to be frozen over, or 0 for a longer period of time.
@@butwhy7138 Rankine is just Fahrenheit being jealous that Celsius has Kelvin
This is the first time I find the sponsorship as interesting as the video itself. Will definitely check it out. Cheers!
I can completely relate to "I would rather be cold than inconvenienced", I only take a jumper / jacket if it's freezing or if I have somewhere I can leave it.
It truly just comes down to humidity at the end of the day though. I used to live in Arizona and the 100 degree weather didn’t bother me but when I moved to NY and NJ the humidity was suffocating and way more unbearable 😭
See you say that, but to me, 75 and humid is perfection, while 80 without can often still be too hot. Idk why, I just prefer humidity. I seem to be alone ...
@@eiosti some people do be like that
I live in quebec canada, and one summer i worked with someone from maroc and he told me his 40+ celcius felt less opressive than 30C humid quebec.
And our weather is mild.
yeah, except, for people who aren't acclimated to dry heat like in AZ it can be surprising when we get nauseated from it without thinking we found it all that uncomfortable, even with drinking a ton of water and barely going outdoors. it's truly not the same for everyone.
I was in the western US last summer and 40 degrees wasn't that bad but in japan/Hawaii (where I've lived) it's like 70% humidity and I'm dying in 30 degrees
I also have a problem knowing what a temperature actually feels like, and I think it's because I moved a lot as a kid. There is a big difference between 80°F in the dry desert of New Mexico and 80°F in the humid swamp of Southern Georgia.
You need a hygrometer too
just so everyone knows, the wiring connectors are usually crunchy, but more expensive and less tasty that the usual sources of crunch.
Over the years of looking at meteorologiists' weather prediction, I read both the actual AND the HeatIndex/WindChill ("Feels Like") temperatures. Later on, I also started to look at the humidity as well.
Also, Celcius is good for measuring temperatures of liquids, but for weather, I'd go with Farenheit.
Or, we could just go with Kelvin.
I really enjoyed the video, but we could sum it up into: "none of these scales failed you. your educational system did." lol
No, but seriously, Celcius is more intuitive for me _becauce_ I grew up getting used to it. Probably, fahrenheit (which I had to look at the title to know how to write), feels more intuitive to you guys, even though it does not make sense "for the rest of the world". Also, there's a reason why this is called a "uNiVeRsAl SyStEm": most of the world uses it. Excluding temperatures, the rest of the "imperial system" feels like a scam and, imho, should be avoided.
i get that the metric system is more uniform, but i really do like the personality that the imperial system has. like, an inch. inching. going a little. or a cup! it's a cup! just think it makes a lot of sense and it's a nice reminder of earlier times without all this uniformity.
@@dottyContrarian this is the stupidest argument for imperial I've ever heard.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts Especially since cups/teaspoons/etc are just names for a metric measurements in metric countries (e.g. 1 cup = 250ml (1/4 litre) rather than America's 1 cup = 240ml). It's very common for people to buy too much or too little of an ingredient when reading recipes online because being told you need 1 litre is much easier to buy for rather than knowing you need 4 cups since liquids at the supermarket don't measure their volume in cups.
@@dottyContrarian i don't want personality in my system
And she’s NOT funny.
DUMB GUIDE TO CELSIUS:
|-| Non-Weather Guide |-|
0° = Water freezes
40° = You have a fever
50° = Hot shower
70°-90° = Perfect for making tea
100° = Water boils
|-| Weather Guide |-|
Below 5° = Very cold, you're gonna need gloves and a big jacket and it's probably frozen outside
5°-15° = Pretty cold, ranges from big jacket to just a warm thick shirt
15°-20° = Warm but on the colder side, you can wear a t-shirt if you're resistant to cold but usually a simple sweater is perfect.
20°-25° = Perfect temperature, it's warm and you can wear a t-shirt, if there's sun outside then you're in paradise.
25°-30° = Warm but on the hotter side, you might sweat more easily. This is where people usually go to the pool or beach.
Over 30° = It's hot, this is when you go to the beach for half a day and drink tons of water and popsicles.
|-| Season guide in Italy but probably basically anywhere in southern/central europe |-|
Winter: 10° and under
Autumn: 5° to 15°
Spring : 15° to 20°
Summer : 20 and over
50 hot shower??? you gonna literally burn yourself. also about -5-15 being cold, thats just depends where you live but near 5/10 u can start walking pretty lightly
40°C is a pretty heavy fever. 37.5 is already a fever. 50°C shower is really, really hot for me. Like it'll actually be uncomfortably hot and might even be painful. I'm in the Netherlands and to me 0-10°C means it's time for a light winter jacket, maybe wear gloves, but it really depends on how cold the wind is.
I had to look up a converter (I don't use Celcius) but you're going to scald yourself in a shower that hot! It looked off when you talked about 30º being a super hot day (which is where I'm like Sabrina since every weather temperature you listed to me sounds like "bring a coat... or several") but knew that even a hot shower isn't typically over 100º F
@@anthonydelfino6171 You'd bring a coat for 30°C? How hot does it get where you live?
@@DanAndHoe no, for 30º F. Every temperature you use in C to talk about the weather is below freezing in F.
The more videos like this I see the happier I feel living in a tropical country.
Thanks for the inspiration. Lovely to meet you.
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Moral of the Story
Touch Grass
Oh geepers Sabrina, during your 'champion' chat, I just wanted to reach out to your past self and give them a big hug. I think some of your imposter syndrome re:stem is about academics looking down on scientific education and outreach. You ARE doing good and important work in STEM. I have loved seeing your journey into the amazing science communicator you are today, and will become!
Imposter syndrome remains. Male or female. Old or young. Senior or junior.
Humidity can also make a cold day feel colder! Places with dry air that are cold usually feel less cold than places that have a slightly higher temperature but higher humidity. I live in a very humid area and even though the winter technically arent that cold to other places it can feel absolutely freezing. Combine that with wind and it can be an absolute nightmare!
I actually get the chart. I Cross-Country Skied throughout high school and our coach actually told us to do a similar thing- write down what layers work the best for us under certain conditions. It was really important for skiing because too cold and you could get hypothermia on a long ski. Too warm and you sweat and end up with the same result.
"I'd rather be cold than inconvenienced"
Sabrina's most Canadian remark thus far
8:05 “this is an IR sensor… not fully confident what “IR” is… I know it’s infrared but *what is that*” just sums up every topic is school
15:40 that is so relatable, I hate feeling things when sweaty, it’s why when spring and summer arrives you will find me laying like a starfish either on my bed but mainly on the floor because the thought of feeling even my own skin makes me wish I had none
"I don't know how we measure light..."
Just a guess, but I have a feeling she spent diverted for an hour to learn how we measure light.
We use lux or lumen, which is the total amount of light energy that hits a 1 metre square area held 1 meter away from 1 candle.
No idea how you do it in American, but I imagine it's probably 16 yards of area held 8 feet away from a donkey with a lantern to give you 6.4 British that are coming.
@@ViridianFlow Anything but the metric system.
@@ViridianFlow CANDLEPOWER.
I can't get over how smooth all the animations on this channel are. I could literally just watch a video of them all day with no commentary and I feel like no information would be lost
Sabrina, you specifically mentioned that the temperature scales were designed to remove our perception of sensation from the reading...
There's a weather device that gives a "wet bulb temperature" which explicitly accounts for how effects like humidity and wind chill feel to humans. It can also tell you immediately whether it's safe to work out outside in the shade.
There's also a calculated heat index, which usually is where the "feels like" temperatures on apps come from.
Both of these are far better than the "just look at the big number on the phone" everybody else was telling you to use!
Actually that sensor is awesome, and very cheap for what it provides. I have a meteorology bachelor's and I used the exact same sensor BME and the RPi in my final project (obviously wasn't just to get the temperature ahahah). Nice video
I finished training as an electronics technician not too long ago (career switch, now doing professionally my long-time hobby), and one of my semester projects was a giant-digit thermometer. The bulk of the hardware and software design was actually for the display (I used LED filaments and designed it so that the segments fade out, reminiscent of incandescent filaments), driven by an ESP32.
@3:30 As an Australian, I haven't experienced weather below 0 C so 32 F, so the idea that 0 is the coldest I know means Celsius is better for me.
As an Australian I regularly experience weather below - 0 C... I do camp in kosciuszko national park during winter though
Same living in Los Angeles. I mean, I guess I've experienced some weather below 0°C on trips, but it is certainly not a normal temperature I am used to experiencing. I guess I could say, anything below 20°C is weather I would need a sweater of some kind, while anything above that I would have more minimal clothing.
“I would rather be cold than inconvenienced”, I have never heard a more accurate statement in an AIP video… EVER!
I was used to F growing up so in order to get an intuitive idea of what Celsius temperatures felt like, I used it exclusively for a year and it was pretty helpful! It was so interesting how 18-19 degrees C was like tolerable just barely need a coat weather and 30 degrees C was summer hot, while I was used to 32 degrees F being snow/winter freezing. At the same time when it got into negative temperatures I was freaked out, but it made more sense that negative was below freezing.
I also want to say that I totally agree with the whole champion idea. I found it really difficult to move forward in engineering and though I graduated I left thinking it was something not meant for me. I am still interested, but have no idea how to move forward from where I am now. I would say that my biggest mistake was getting too caught up in the coursework and not making enough connections, not advocating for myself enough and getting real world experience while in school. Struggling with the courses really damaged my confidence even though I do have a natural inclination towards STEM. If I had a champion at that critical time I think I would be in a better place now. If there's any opportunity for me to be a champion in any way, even though I'm not successful in the field right now I would definitely do it!
This is why physics classes are essential in high school (idk about the US/Canada, but in Europe you DEFINITELY learn what IR is and how to measure light...)
My weather app has a “real feel” metric which is basically like “we know it’s 78°F but it feels like 90°F”. It has saved me multiple times!
cool! what app is that?
@@sofiacorreia206 Most apps do. The climate app on my Samsung does, it's basically what really matters, because it takes into account the humidity, the wind, and some other things. It's where it says “feels like” (I use my app in Portuguese, so I know it as “sensação térmica” which translates to “thermal sensation”, but according to what I googled, in English it's “feels like”)
@@sofiacorreia206 I Know The Weather Channel has a "Feels Like" index under the temperature. I look at it quite often because where I live it's normal for it to climb above 110 F.
@@sofiacorreia206 It’s just the weather app on my IPhone. All you need is to scroll down and find where it says “feels like __”