Units of temperature, a more useful relative scale

Forgot Rankine. Labels same as Celcius.

Rankine is always the red-headed stepchild.

Rankine is the absolute Fareinheit scale. The labels should be the same as for the Kelvin scale

Even more so than the general student population, the outing club at UC Berkeley was heavy on Chem / Physics / Math geeks. So at a weekly meeting when someone mentioned "-40 degrees" and a Linguistics major asked, "Celsius or Fahrenheit?" the mass response of "It doesn't matter!" was deafening.

David, the same thing happens at every engineering school.

–B.G.–

Celsius
0 fairly cold
100 dead

we visualise that as :

0 water freezes
100 water boils

both of those pretty familiar with most people around the world.
Yes I do know that it is 100C only at sea level, however boiling water "hot" is a concept familiar to people that live in Arctic regions as it is everywhere, 100f "hot day outside" isn't…( it was 105f the other day here…)