Two temperature scales, centigrade and Fahrenheit, are in common use in meteorology. Most nations use the centigrade scale, but Fahrenheit remains in use in the United States. The boiling point of ...

Every once in a while, you may see a temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Your car thermometer may revert to the wrong system and you don’t know how to change it, for example. Since almost ...

Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly 6 degrees Centigrade lower than the average temperature from then to ...