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From: "Stephen Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: [USMA:11615] Re: Weather
Just like my co-worker who grew up in Cornwall, Ont. and tells me that he
would see US cars coming over the bridge during the summer with skis on the
ski racks.
(snip)
Your remark reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story of American
tourists arriving in Toronto in August and asking where they would find the
best skiing conditions.
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They must have gone to the Weatheroffice site, seen that temperatures in
July were 30 degrees or even higher in cities like Toronto and Ottawa and in
the twenties in the mountains. "30 degrees Fahrenheit in the cities and in
the twenties in the mountains! Wonderful, that is very good for skiing!
Let's go!" Think of the nurse in USMA 11627 who never heard of the Celsius
scale. Maybe she was one of them going on a skiing holiday in the Canadian
summer.
The last two summers I saw very often temperatures in the large Canadian
cities between 30 and 35 degrees on Weatheroffice.
I saw something like that, long ago. It had been cold and snowy during
February with lots of the white stuff in the hills and mountains. Then warm
air came in with lots of rain. I saw people leaving on that warm day (> 10
degrees) with pouring rain for a day trip to the Belgiam Ardennes, which
reach up to 700 m. They must have thought that an ascent of a few hundred
meters would do the trick. This is never enough when subtropical air from
the southern Atlantic is the boss here. Any snow left was slush. Too bad for
them!
Han
