Nah if 0° is upright 90° rotates that counterclockwise. Blame trig.

Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

0°C - pretty cold

100°C - pretty hot, grab a beer with you and remember towel under your ass

It's the one part of Murica measurements that makes decent sense. Science aside I just want to know what to wear that day in a human scale.

Lucky.

Zero Fahrenheit is like -18 C.

Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

it's a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.

...he didn't write down the amounts he used though.

Yes, and don't call the Shirley

I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I'm delighted none the less.