It's elegant in a way if you know it. The 0 to 100 range is like a spectrum between unbearably cold at 0 and unbearably hot at 100. 50 Fahrenheit is exactly 10 Celsius, which is more cold than it is warm, but it's still a decent midpoint. The only real downside for weather reporting is that freezing isn't zero, and I can see why that would seem extremely weird if you're used to a system where 0 is freezing. But everyone here knows that 32 is freezing, no one needs to be reminded what the freezing point is.
It's elegant in a way if you know it. The 0 to 100 range is like a spectrum between unbearably cold at 0 and unbearably hot at 100. 50 Fahrenheit is exactly 10 Celsius, which is more cold than it is warm, but it's still a decent midpoint. The only real downside for weather reporting is that freezing isn't zero, and I can see why that would seem extremely weird if you're used to a system where 0 is freezing. But everyone here knows that 32 is freezing, no one needs to be reminded what the freezing point is.