To all: Just a few weeks back, there was a short thread on this list about contacting the meteorologists at KSL-TV (Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate), who were chosen to head the Olympic Weather Team. Today I stumbled across the University of Utah Department of Meteorology site dedicated to Olympic Weather Support Project: http://www.met.utah.edu/olympics/. If you click on the link for Olympic Weather Support at the bottom of the page, you will be able to read a 33-page PDF manuscript (http://www.met.utah.edu/olympics/olympic.pdf), which was written by main people on the Olympic Weather Team (including Mark Eubank - chief meteorologists of KSL-TV), and was submitted to Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society just yesterday. I am pleased to report, that the authors of the manuscript definitely favoured SI in their work. All distances are given in km only. Temperatures are given in �C (�F), elevations in m (ft), and precipitation in cm (in), wind speed in m/s. Historical hazardous weather remarks given in SI only. Time is expressed in 24-hour format. The manuscript also features some maps, tables and graph. Scales are given in km only, etc. Considering the above stated, I express deep hope that we will not be disappointed when we see weather reporting during the Olympics on TV. On a personal note, I am in the process of finishing up the paperwork for volunteering during the games. May be we will also receive weather information, and I will be sure to advise the list members what format the SLOC will use. Cheers, Nikolay
