You're overcomplicating things. In Canada we just have winter, not winter, almost winter, and road construction.
A Canadian told me that the only seasons they have at home are Winter and Construction. Because winter is too cold for construction.
At my college, the seasons are Fall with Construction, Spring with Construction, and Summer with Constructoin.
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#382598Marq FJAThu, 11th Jul '13 7:09:48 PMfrom Saudi Arabia
Seriously, any system that converts differently at different points is completely bonkers.
Are you referring to Farenheit? Because Farenheit is completely uniform. I'm not sure what you're complaining about there.
Fahrenheit converts to Celcius at a different scale, depending on where it is. So 30C is like 90F, but -30C is -30F. IT makes it baffling to me people actually us Fahrenheit, because it must be incredibly hard to measure if the difference between degrees is different every time.
That's because they have different zero points (both of which are completely arbitrary). But they're both linear scales. Everything you said is just as big a problem with Celsius as with Farenheit.
0 Celsius is Solid to Liquid Water and 100 is Liquid to Gas. Everything else is worked out from that.
Technically it's based on the triple point of water. 1 degree celsius is defined as 1/273.16 of the triple point, IIRC.
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