LOUISVILLE, Ky. — News of COVID-19 vaccines and deployments have taken over the headlines in recent weeks, and various numbers have been thrown at us: the efficacy, how many doses are needed, and ...

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 ...

Any temperature below zero evokes images of extreme discomfort. Likewise, any day over 100 is certainly a scorcher. These two benchmarks were somewhat arbitrarily chosen by Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724 ...

300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name. At the time, people knew it was either hot or cold, but, there was no official way to mark degrees ...

IN addition to the Fahrenheit scale being so much more practical for observation in meteorology than the Celsius, allow me to point out that in observations for ocean temperature it is even more so, ...

If you’ve ever traveled abroad or heard a story about a cold blast or a heat wave hitting another country, you've likely heard the temperature in degrees Celsius. A hot day would be close to 40 ...