Let us hope [and encourage] that events involving numbers (high jump, pole vault, long jump, and others) are reported in SI. It is ludicrous to see, for instance, a televised view of the long jump, with the metre marks right on the sand box, and the length of the jump being reported in feet and inches. Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Nikolay O. Malyarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: August 28, 2001 19:59 Subject: [USMA:15047] 2002 Olympic Winter Games' weather team >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 >
