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Measuring weather
The Fahrenheit scale was developed to set zero corresponding to the coldest temperature normally encountered in Western Europe, and set 100 corresponding to the hottest. On this scale, 212 is the temperature of boiling water, and 32 is freezing, separated by a purposefully rational number of 180. The Celsius scale is designed such that zero is the freezing point of water and 100 is its boiling point. The Kelvin scale is designed as an "absolute" scale, such that zero is "absolute zero," the coldest temperature possible. Values in Celsius and Kelvin are similar in that their increments are equal, so that in Kelvin, the freezing and boiling points of water are also separated by 100. Similar to barometers, in-situ thermometers have also developed electronic versions in the recent past. This is nice, since liquid-in-glass thermometers are fragile, difficult to construct, and slow to respond to temperature changes. Next page -> in situ, surface observations, temperature
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The Fahrenheit scale was developed to set zero corresponding to the coldest temperature normally encountered in Western Europe, and set 100 corresponding to the hottest. On this scale, 212 is the temperature of boiling water, and 32 is freezing, separated by a purposefully rational number of 180. The Celsius scale is designed such that zero is the freezing point of water and 100 is its boiling point. The Kelvin scale is designed as an "absolute" scale, such that zero is "absolute zero," the coldest temperature possible. Values in Celsius and Kelvin are similar in that their increments are equal, so that in Kelvin, the freezing and boiling points of water are also separated by 100. Similar to barometers, in-situ thermometers have also developed electronic versions in the recent past. This is nice, since liquid-in-glass thermometers are fragile, difficult to construct, and slow to respond to temperature changes. Next page -> in situ, surface observations, temperature
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