Okay, i have a confession to make I've lived in the United States since 2010, and. . .
Alexa, what's the weather today?
Right now in NewYork, it's 65°F with clear skies and sun. Today's forecast has partly sunny weather with a high of 77°F and a low of 61°F.
UHHHH…
I still don't understand the use of Fahrenheit.
Virtually every country on earth uses Celsius to measure temperature. But the US still uses Fahrenheit. And for that reason, we —at Vox— often get comments like these.
Okay, we get it.
Besides the fact that the majority of the world uses it— the metric system makes conversions a lot easier.
The Celsius scale even looks simpler. It has freezing and boiling points at nice, round numbers— zero and 100. Where in Fahrenheit, it's a bit of a mess.
And of course, this isn't just an issue of aesthetics or weather updates. America's unwillingness to switch over to the metric system has had serious consequences.
