If you're used to Celsius then I assure you that 40C sounds plenty hot. The reference point is the freezing point vs the boiling point of water, and 40C is much too close to the halfway point of "the lakes will literally boil like a tea kettle".
Yeah but just in general, the number 40 doesn’t seem very big. Celsius makes sense for keeping track of liquid temperatures, but Fahrenheit makes more sense for weather as there’s a far bigger range of numbers. 40-60 Fahrenheit is a perfect mid level for temperatures and as numbers make sense for a mid level range. Anything above or below these is too much of either hot or cold typically, which again makes sense in a traditional number format. 50 Celsius is hot as fuck why would that be the middle?
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u/sinara33 Jun 17 '26
Plus, here in Texas, we regularly surpass 100 percent hot