Celsius is used in every country in the world to record and report temperature. There are only three nations in the world today that still use Fahrenheit, which are the United States, Belize, and Palau. The rest of the world has switched to Celsius in everyday use for the temperature, but I believe that Fahrenheit is much better when it comes to everyday use.
Looking at Celsius it makes sense why it is adopted world wide, because of where the scale is set, with 0 degrees being the freezing point and 100 degrees being the boiling point of water. While Fahrenheit has 32 degrees being the freezing point and 212 degrees being the boiling point of water. The creator of Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, did have logic when setting 212 degrees as the boiling point. When Fahrenheit was testing his thermometer in his lab he made zero the coldest it could get and still be recorded with the mercury. 32 became the point were water would freeze and 212 became the boiling point, which is a 180 degrees difference or a half-circle.
Celsius is much better for scientific purposes because of its base ten system and the fact it is easy to calculate. In every day use Fahrenheit makes more sense. 0 to 100 on Celsius tells me the point when water will freeze and boil, while 0 to 100 on Fahrenheit tells me the range of temperature any person can go out side and be comfortable. The gap between Celsius' 0 to 100 is more extreme than Fahrenheit's 0 to 100. If your outside and the temperature is 100 degrees Celsius, you're dead, at the that point you don't care if the boiling point of water and freezing point are easy to understand. At 0 degrees Celsius water freezes, but I don't, I can still walk around out side comfortably and just put on a long-sleeve shirt. Any thing under 0 degrees Fahrenheit I know its really cold out and might frost bite. Any thing above 100 degrees is really hot out and I might die of heat stroke. Either way I should stay inside.
In short, when it comes to the everyday use Fahrenheit is better, while Celsius is better for other uses, because Celsius is based off water, while Fahrenheit is based on the range of comfortable temperature for humans.
Picture Source - http://imgur.com/PuNzp
Celsius and Fahrenheit creation - http://www.ericpinder.com/html/fahrenheit.html
Uses of Celsius and Fahrenheit - http://www.diffen.com/difference/Celsius_vs_Fahrenheit
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