Guess I’m a Canadian adult in the USA.
Yeah but, 10c is 50f, which is not cold for shorts. Maybe cool at best? I wear shorts year round though 😬.
Are you a ‘shorts every day’ guy?
Not them…
But, I do and yes I shovel snow in shorts. As long as my feet and hands are warm, I’m ready to roll.
You dropped de minus on 10C.
I understand because of a useful mnemonic I learned a few years ago. 30 is hot. 20 is nice. 10 is cold. 0 is ice. 30 is still pretty nice for most US citizens since we’re not Canadian.
Jackets at 30C??
as someone who has visited one of the hottest countries on Earth, yeah… 30C in countries like that, is considered chilly. There were a couple of days in a row where the temp reached 50 and kept crawling. My Scandinavian ass was not ready.
An Australian family moved to my town on some kind of exchange and yah, the one kid was still wearing a jacket at 30. Literally never wasn’t cold.
Taught us how to play cricket, he was a cool kid.
Tbf, I do that
“When will I ever use this in real life?!?” I wonder how successful “to understand the international memes” would be in the classroom 🤔
Never seen a C in my life
American education system at work.
I suppose posting this meme with F instead of C would confuse more of the world than this one will. When trolling its all about numbers people.
Nah, shitting on Americans is a daily requirement. No one likes Americans.
Yeah but this does double duty of normalizing °F
10° is a completely normal temperature to wear shorts at
Americans are used to being able to infer unknown scales of measurement
That’s not even flexing with the shorts. It’s -15°C that’s the flex
Also me knowing what the hell that figure is supposed to be.
I know neither one is freezing. Or boiling, because my coffee brews at 95° C, max.
Ah, you see it’s easy! 10°C is 70°F in Canada and 30°C is 35°F in Australia. Fahrenheit is based upon comfortable temperature and since that differs by person and population the amount differs too!
Celsius is just boring old math though. Kind of like metric measurements. Everything devisable by 1000? Pffft, boooring! Give me my 600 feet to the mile and 8-1/2 football fields to league like a truely patriotic measuring system! Did I mention I actually prefer needing a lookup table to figure out unit conversions.
Heatwaves in London are strange. You see a few people outside in light sweaters. It’s like they don’t know what to do. It’s like they don’t own t-shirts
I always wear long sleeved shirts, because I burn very quickly and don’t want skin cancer and I really dislike applying sunscreen all the time.
Same, but when it’s 30c+ outside there’s a huge difference between us going out wearing long sleeved linen shirts and light trousers, and the handful of people I always end up seeing (at least!) wearing puffer jackets and wooly hats.
But a heat wave in London is, what? 25 degrees?
Last big heatwave hit 35 here and I’m only an hour and a bit away from the edge of London
Nope. 40
unfortunately it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets
it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets
40C in London in 2022,
37.7C last month (June 2026)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/june-2026-heatwave-a-recap-of-the-temperature-records (for avoidance of confusion those are the records for June - the 40C was July 2022)
Anything over 28C is currently classified as a heatwave, but I think they’re going to have to revisit that, or just say “all summer is a heatwave try not to die” given 32-35C has been consistently hit pretty much every summer this decade.
That’s only 86F. It’s not a heat wave in the US until it’s in the mid 90s. That’s 35 Celsius.
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That 111 you see is 43.9C.
yeah it’s not bad globally, but it is pretty bad for london, the infrastructure isn’t prepared for it
esp because it’s pretty humid as well, sweating doesn’t do muchYeah, the humidity also doesn’t compare. The US is, as with most things especially lately, way worse.
None of this means the UK has it easy, don’t misunderstand. It means the people stuck in the US are in a crazy land of stupid things which includes the weather. But at least there aren’t Australian murder fauna I guess.
62% humidity outside right now, 99° F “real feel”, 92° F “real feel shade”. 88° F actual temp.
I think what folks from not humid places don’t realize is how hot the shade is. Shade is always better than sun, obviously, but it sort of only takes the feeling of the sun against your skin. The air is still hot. I’d compare it to a sauna sort of. Like it’s still stuffy.
The first time my wife went to somewhere that actually has dry heat she said it was amazing. She was actually cold in the shade. Not just cool. That concept is so foreign to me.
This. Higher wet bulb temps just straight up kill you. A hot day in Alabama or Louisiana is not the same as a hot day in London or Riyadh.
