What is the difference

What is the difference between farenhite and celciates? Sorry about the bad spelling but I don't know the correct spelling. :oops:

Fahrenheit is the standard temperature measurement for America (and maybe some other parts of the world, I don't know for sure). Water freezes at 32*F and boils at 212*F. If you live in America, these are the numbers you are used to and can relate to. (You know that 95* is hot, but still bearable....whereas 95*C would kill you!)

Celcius is the more scientific measurement used and is the standard for most of the world. Water freezes at 0*C and boils at 100*C.

Well I need to know because stangly my thermometer is suddenly only measuring temp in celciates.

To convert Celcius to Fahrenheit....take your Celcius number and multiply it times 9/5 (nine fifths) ...then add 32.

Thanks!

cool thanks Judy, I never new how to do that either lol

Now I got it back to normal. Sorry to waste your time JLC!

Well I'm in Canada, and here(along with most of the rest of the world....except USA...damn yanks:wink: ) the temps are told in Celsius, like on the news and stuff. But, the problem is, I'm not used to Celsius at all. I live 2 hours from the Windsor/Detroit border so I usually get the Detroit weather on the news. Of course, they use Fahrenheit, so that confuses me, since now I'm usually used to Fahrenheit, lol. What I do as a quick estimate to figure out what something in celsius is in fahrenheit, is I use this formula. It's usually decently acurate, with it usually being a few degrees off. Here's the example:

20 C X 2 = 40 +28 = 68 F

Another thing I never thought of....your thermometer is digital isn't it? One of those ones from Walmart? Look in the instructions or something and see if you can switch the measurement. Since most of the world uses Celsius for temp, maybe the default is Celsius, and you have to change it to measure in Fahrenheit.

Either way....I've rambled on again. 8)

Edit: Aww, I took too long to reply. Now look at the posts above me. Damn dinner distracting me. :oops:

Thats fine. I've had that happen alot.

Yah, I used to deal with the metric system before I moved here. Talk about one confused foreigner :lol:

Like 6 years ago I have never heard of "Foot Pounds of Torque." I thought it was some kind of currency like "Sterling Pounds" :oops:

My walmart digi will sometimes start displaying in C also - even though the little slider on back is still set to F. Toggling it to C and back usually clears it up. Odd. Wonder how pervasive that is - happen to anyone else?

Ahhhh... the whole metric thing. I really want to move to Montreal and live but to do what I do for a living ( building) it is just to hard for this old dog to learn new tricks ie metric as opposed to feet and inches UGH!!!!!
But I just have to figured out something because Montreal is calling my name.

Yeah, I have that same problem sometimes. Even sometimes I can jiggle the slider & it just stays on celcius. So, since I am a lazy guy, I just search a temperature convertor online & punch the numbers in. It comes to roughly the celcius temp x 2.7 or so.

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Originally Posted by jotay

Ahhhh... the whole metric thing. I really want to move to Montreal and live but to do what I do for a living ( building) it is just to hard for this old dog to learn new tricks ie metric as opposed to feet and inches UGH!!!!!
But I just have to figured out something because Montreal is calling my name.

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That should be the least of your worries...unless you already know french. :wink:

i've never understood why Americans cling to the imperial system while the rest of the world uses SI or the metric system. i am very comfortable with both and when you break it down SI makes sooooo much more sense. I guess thats why the whole scientific community, even the americans, use SI.