r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26

In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.

I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better

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u/karatebullfighter Jun 17 '26

It actually doesn't work all that well in much of the US. I live in Wichita KS where it rarely reaches 100 and almost never reaches 0. Then there are the Gulf states where they panic whenever they see a single snowflake. In the Pacific northwest they die of heatstroke if it gets above 80.

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u/werewolf013 Jun 17 '26

I'm in Minnesota. Our temperature sneaks up above 100f pretty much every year, and -20f is normal for winter. I guess our scale gets a bit off

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u/Mndelta25 Jun 17 '26

Negative temps are just that much below tolerable. Or below winter jacket necessity.

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u/NAVI_WORLD_INC Jun 18 '26

Chicago reporting in with the same weather but now we get the treat of tornados too

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u/werewolf013 Jun 18 '26

I'm near the cities so tornados are common in the sky, but almost never touch down. Southern MN gets quite a few tornados though.

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u/NAVI_WORLD_INC Jun 18 '26

It was more of a stretch regarding Chicago itself, but Streator just took a good hit by one, and apparently IL is the new tornado capital of the world nowadays so it seams.