The third story is weird. -18.8�C is really
-1.84�F. If they wanted to keep the same number of significant digits,
they could have reported it that way. In reality, they could have
reported the temperature as -19�C and been just as accurate. The way it
was reported makes the fahrenheit look like the original value and the celsius
a conversion.
Comment: this is typical
journalistic innumeracy. They seem to have forgotten the basics of
significant digits, rounding and the like.
Duncan
John
EU SUMMIT ON EUROPEAN REFORMS BEGINS IN LAEKEN
SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES,
ICY CONDITIONS ALL OVER ITALY
Severe weather conditions in Italy
paralyzed traffic yesterday. Italians were being discouraged from using their
cars as the worst is yet to come, officials declared. Snow storms
created traffic jams all over Italy's north, especially around Milan an
on the Emilia-Romagna highways. In the South, patches of the
Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway were iced over. Frozen electrical lines
created a black-out in Milan's central train station and paralyzed train
traffic for hours. Several airports had to close and the Turin airport
registered delays of more than an hour. Mercury went down to polar
levels in the region of Aldo Adige: the Resia Pass measured -18.8
C (-2 F). The northern city of Trieste registered 154-kilometer-an-hour
winds (155 mph). Even Tuscany was not spared, and, in the region of Abruzzo,
several schools closed.
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