-----Original Message----- From: Duncan Bath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 2, 2001 16:37 Subject: [USMA:15108] Re: British meteorologist about Indian summer >It seems to me that there can be no excuse for NOT 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." >> >> >
