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Fahrenheit is air-on-Earth scaled. 0-100 is about the typical range of temperatures on the Earth's surface (excluding the winter pole) for a given day. This makes it ideally tailored to describing weather, its purpose.
Celcius is will-water-be-liquid scaled. Specifically on Earth at sea level, but even going into space it's not that far off. That makes it ideally tailored for cooking and doing other water-based chemistry, its purpose.
Totally agree, I prefer C for anything related to cooking because the range is suited for that. For general feel of the outdoors, F makes sense (though C can too, I'm just much more okay with using different units for different things).
It's all vibes when it comes to this specific situation. Length is meters all the way