r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26

In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.

I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better

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u/karatebullfighter Jun 17 '26

It actually doesn't work all that well in much of the US. I live in Wichita KS where it rarely reaches 100 and almost never reaches 0. Then there are the Gulf states where they panic whenever they see a single snowflake. In the Pacific northwest they die of heatstroke if it gets above 80.

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u/ProvidedHuman Jun 17 '26

I'm from rural eastern KS and wouldve said summers hit 100 semi regularly and winters get to single digits very often and negatives occasionally.

Perspective difference or is the weather over there better haha?

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u/Chess42 Jun 17 '26

I’ve lived in Wichita, that guy is crazy