Paul-- Of all the metric units, the Celsius scale is the most natural.
It is too bad that the U.S. Weather Service just missed the conversion
during the Reagan confusion. I have been thinking Celsius for many ears
now and have all my digital instruments set to that scale. When the
television weather reports come on, I have to do a mental conversion to
the unnatural Fahrenheit scale. --Martin Morrison
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Paul Trusten wrote:
This weekend, West Texas endured its hardest freeze in many years.
VERY seldom does our thermometer register negative numbers, but the last
couple of nights I have observed minus one readings. Big deal, huh? I
lived in northern Maine, where the daily high temperature would be a
negative number for weeks on end. I experienced -40 once, and yawned.
Down here, though, a little bit of protracted freeze gets everyone bent
out of shape.
This dangling at the freezing point of water brought home to me the neat
logic of Celsius. Negative number, negative for liquid water, which gets
nixed into solid water whenever the minus sign is sustained. But, right
now, it is a blessed 3, and everything is going drip,drip,drip as the
thick coating of freezing rain unfreezes. Around here, the ground is so
dry that it sucks up every drop of melt. Keep the temperature in
positive numbers here, and the ice, or for that matter snow, can be
completely gone in less than a day.
Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist
Vice President and Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas, USA
+1(432)528-7724
www.metric.org
trus...@grandecom.net
