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[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 22 hours ago

As a Brit; take away thirty, divide by two. Really you'd only hear Fahrenheit temperatures on film or on TV programmes, so the accuracy loss is unimportant, and which can be mapped as:

  • under 60 - coat weather
  • 70s - t-shirt weather
  • 80s - t-shirt and shorts weather
  • 90s - dangerous heatwave that will make the news, have lots of fruity newspaper articles with pictures of people in their swims outside in the rivers, etc.