A full year has past since becoming a resident of the USA, and yet, I still think in Celsius. The question of “How hot do Vancouver summer’s get?” often comes up when conversing with the locals. Each time, I casually reply, “It averages in the mid-20s, with occasional heat waves in the low 30s.”. Next, a blank/odd look to my reply always follows. I don’t blame them because I begin to take on a silly face as I stumble to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit.

Although Canada officially uses the Metric system, the Imperial system is used instead for many daily and common uses. In Canada, we use a mix-mash of Metric and Imperial units to keep things interesting.

Now to memorizing the common temperature conversions and building Fahrenheit into the vocabulary …

Don’t worry, the temperatures don’t dip below 0 C/32 F in Silicon Valley!
Wikipedia’s article on San Jose, CA states that the lowest temperature ever recorded was -8 C/18 F on January 6, 1884. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where there is often a week long stretch of -30 C/-22 F temperatures during the winter months, I had to include the cold conversions above 😉