Indeed.
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Sent: Tuesday,
28 August 2001
19.58
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:15049] Re: 2002
Olympic Winter Games' weather team
In a message dated 2001-08-28 19:56:01 Eastern Daylight Time,
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writes:
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
Excellent.
Now if we can just get the University of Utah to talk to
their state's doofus
highway department!
Carleton
