It seems to me that there can be no excuse for quoting yesterday's and/or today's temperature in celsius; after all, we KNOW how it is, we're experiencing it. As for FORECASTS, a case could be made for including Deg F (in parentheses) after the celsius number. Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Han Maenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 2, 2001 14:39 Subject: [USMA:15103] British meteorologist about Indian summer >I wonder whether the BWMA is making inroads with British meteorologists; it >is campaigning against the use of the Celsius scale in forecasts. Here is >senior meteorologist Jim Dale with a long range prediction for September, >expecting an Indian summer in Britain and he uses only the Fahrenheit scale: > >"The week ahead will be changeable. There will be a cool picture for the >first couple of days of Autumn. But after that we will start to see an >Indian summer which will last, at the very least, to the middle of the month >and may well continue for longer. The sunshine is enough for people to get >excited about. People are putting on their coats again and kids are going >back to school, everyone thinks the summer is over. >But what we're saying to them is that despite this run of cool weather the >heat and sunshine will persist into an Indian summer. The warm weather is >waiting in the Atlantic at the moment for this rough stuff to move away. >When it does move it will come in from the west. Most places will enjoy >copious amounts of sunshine, little if any rain and temperatures into the >70's fahrenheit zone." > >
