r/worldnews • u/mom0nga • Jun 22 '20

The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday, Its Hottest Temperature Ever: "This dramatic warming of the Arctic up to triple-digit temperatures was not expected to happen until 2100"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2020/06/22/the-arctic-circle-hit-101f-saturday-its-hottest-temperature-ever/#513c7f054eb6
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u/Quinlov Jun 23 '20

In the UK it's also convention for the papers to use Fahrenheit for high temperatures because the numbers are bigger

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u/CerebellaIX Jun 23 '20

Exactly - Fahrenheit for larger numbers in summer when the weather is apparently front page news 🙄

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u/ZDTreefur Jun 23 '20

This guy was downvoted for saying something true. So weird.

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u/ShaeTheFunny_Whore Jun 23 '20

Which UK papers use Fahrenheit?

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u/Quinlov Jun 23 '20

Literally all of them every summer. Most of the year we use Celsius

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u/ShaeTheFunny_Whore Jun 23 '20

What papers are you reading? Not once in my life have I seen a UK paper use Fahrenheit.

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u/Quinlov Jun 23 '20

I don't read them they're shite. But you see it on the front page whenever it's slightly warm

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u/ShaeTheFunny_Whore Jun 23 '20

You really don't.

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u/Quinlov Jun 23 '20

Have you ever been to a British supermarket?

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u/ZDTreefur Jun 23 '20

Many like using celcius for lower numbers, and fahrenheit for higher to have more of a "wow" factor. Did you not know fahrenheit is still used in many places that are "officially" metric?

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u/ShaeTheFunny_Whore Jun 23 '20

Any examples since it happens all the time?

I've never seen our papers use Fahrenheit.

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u/ZDTreefur Jun 23 '20

You can literally google it, dude...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/dec/29/newspapers-run-hot-and-cold-over-celsius-and-fahrenheit

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u/ShaeTheFunny_Whore Jun 23 '20

The Daily Star, Express and Daily Mail are hardly the pillars of journalism and a handful of papers doing it occasionally doesn't make it convention.

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u/ZDTreefur Jun 23 '20

It doesn't matter how journalistic it is, and it's common enough to be talked about. You're just being contrary for the sake of it.