{"id":2323,"date":"2012-08-12T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T11:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2012-08-12T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T11:29:39","slug":"temperature-conversions-for-americans-living-in-mild-climates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/temperature-conversions-for-americans-living-in-mild-climates\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature conversions for Americans living in mild climates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Converting temperatures in your head is a good trick for Americans living abroad. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo here&#8217;s the trick. You memorise the following correspondences:<\/p>\n<p>0 \u00b0C\t=\t32 \u00b0F<br \/>\n10 \u00b0C\t=\t50 \u00b0F<br \/>\n20 \u00b0C\t=\t68 \u00b0F<br \/>\n30 \u00b0C\t=\t86 \u00b0F<br \/>\nThen, to convert any temperature that is near these, approximate 1 \u00b0C = 2 \u00b0F. This will allow you to convert almost any naturally occurring outdoor temperature in the UK in either direction to within 1\u00b0 accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s try it. As I write the current temperature in Edinburgh is 14 \u00b0C. This is 10 \u00b0C plus 4\u00b0 extra. From memory convert the 10 \u00b0C to 50 \u00b0F. Then convert 4 \u00b0C extra to 8 \u00b0F extra and add it back on. This gives you 14\u00b0C = 58\u00b0F. This is not exact, but close enough that you know to wear a jumper. The exact formula is<\/p>\n<p>  14 * 9 \/ 5 + 32 = 57 F<br \/>\nGood luck doing that in your head.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from Charles Sutton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theexclusiveor.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/08\/converting-fahrenheit-into-celsius.html\">Converting Fahrenheit into Celsius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A jumper, for Americans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/jumper\">is<\/a> &#8220;A pullover sweater.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converting temperatures in your head is a good trick for Americans living abroad. So here&#8217;s the trick. You memorise the following correspondences: 0 \u00b0C = 32 \u00b0F 10 \u00b0C = 50 \u00b0F 20 \u00b0C = 68 \u00b0F 30 \u00b0C = 86 \u00b0F Then, to convert any temperature that is near these, approximate 1 \u00b0C = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[560,561,562,559,558],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-celsius","tag-fahrenheit","tag-jumpers","tag-piecewise-linear-approximations","tag-temperature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}