Saturday’s temperature had triggered an excessive heat warning across Arizona as lows were expected to range between 80F and 86F

On Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service announced that the temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport reached 110F, making it the 54th day this year with temperatures of at least 110F.

Saturday’s temperature breaks the previous record of 53 days that was set in 2020. From 1991 to 2020, the average consecutive days of 110F or above is 21 days, the NWS said.

An excessive heat warning has been issued for south central and south-west Arizona until 8pm on Sunday as weekend highs are expected to range between 108F and 114F. Meanwhile, lows are expected to range between 80F to 86F.

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F stands for Flaffenfeit, and is a deprecated measurement system the world doesn’t use anymore, except some backwards parts of the world. 110F is equal to about 2.85 feet or 7.13 ounces if I remember correctly. For sure It’s a very clever system invented by an ancient master jokester, where nothing relates to anything in any sensible way.

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You were close, but your math was a bit off. 110 Flaffenheit actually comes out to 2.87 feet and 7.47 ounces. It’s easy to make that mistake though. Not everyone understands Flaffenheit Freedom Units.

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Ah yes, if you use the Freedom Units revised version the feet and ounces are smaller. I think those were measured after a new president to make him look more impressive on paper.

Sorry to use the older scale, my mistake.

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You are both correct, since 110 Flaffenheit equals both 7.13 urinal ounces and 7.47 stool ounces, as well as exactly 11 southern-hemisphere-unleaded-petrol-ounces. The latter is only incidental, though, since the conversion factor isn’t 10 but 8.97 with an added conversion constant of 11.33 Flaffenheit.

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Don’t you trample on my freedumbs!

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Sorry, but freedom Units are just too hilarious to not make fun of.

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It makes sense if you think about it as a thermometer manufacturer. Dividing things in half with lines is easy to do, so the gap between freezing and quite hot is an exact power of 2. (32 -> 96). as is the gap between 0 and freezing

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Yes because dividing the scale equally, is the biggest challenge of making a thermometer. Who came up with that lame argument?

Oh I forgot, maybe using freedom units it is. 🤣🤣🤣

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You do understand that it was invented by a German/Polish physicist right? Like it’s stupidly designed but they came out at the same time roughly 300 years ago and anglo countries all loved fahrenheit until literally the 1960s when sentiment changed and we are pushing towards Celsius. It hasn’t been that long and it takes a lot of effort to change everything to a new system.

Ask a Canadian to set their oven or ask any older UK citizen the temp and you have a good (for the ovens 100%) chance of getting those dumb “freedom units”

Have gates open for people getting better and working towards stuff. We all start somewhere and being a cunt about things doesn’t inspire change.

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Celsius and Fahrenheit have nearly identical definitions.

In Fahrenheit, 0 is the temp of a mixture of ice and a particular brine. In Celsius, it’s the temp of a mixture of ice and water.

In Fahrenheit, there’s 180 degrees between boiling and freezing. In Celsius, it’s 100.

It’s not like distance, where mile comes from the Latin “mille passus”, “thousand paces”. Originally, Roman legions would place mile markers on roads by literally counting out their steps and placing them appropriately.

Meanwhile, a kilometer is a thousand meters, where a meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle.

Mile and kilometer are defined based on competely different things - a human step vs the circumference of the earth.

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Actually, Fahrenheit uses a 180 degree gap between water boiling (32) and freezing (212).

Anyone familiar with geometry knows that 180 degrees is much easier to divide than 100 degrees. That’s why we rarely measure angles in gradians.

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Imagine your personality revolving around making fun of a measurement system

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Ah yes, it’s the easy life, because Freedom units are making fun of themselves, just being what they are.

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You get to be the first person I blocked on this site who didn’t say something to me first.

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it was based on mercury actually, and caught on because it came very precise instruction on how to build and test a F thermometer

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OK so maybe it had an advantage centuries ago, how is that relevant today?

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It was more about pointing out that there is reason why it set that and why it was popular

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C stands for Celsius, which is a deprecated measurement system that was replaced by kelvin in the SI (metric) system.

Water boils at 99.9839 Celsius. Water does not freeze at zero, but actually slightly below zero. It was once considered clever, but scientists recognized the problem with negative numbers in a temperature scale and have since moved on.

Celsius is still in use among those who are not quite as scientific as they think they are.

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Haha nice try.😋

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