To all: I emailed Fox 13 this morning (see the bottom part of this message), and within 30 minutes received a reply from one of the meteorologists:
Cheers, Nikolay P.S. Please keep the fact of me forwarding this stuff on the lo-down, and please avoid referring to it if any of you write them about it too. I know you all will. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 8.15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Weather on Fox 13 Hi! Thanks so much for your note! One funny thing - it's still strange to see a 5 day forecast with a high of -2, but we use the metric system for quite a bit of behind the scene stuff, so it's just natutal to put it on the air... Anyway, enjoy the games! Steve --- "Nikolay O. Malyarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Good morning! > >I just wanted to thank the weather people at Fox 13 for including metric >units (SI) in their forecasts. It helps the volunteers at the Olympic >Games (like myself - I am a host for the Latvian men's ice-hockey team) >to be able to provide weather information to the athletes in the units >(=B0C), which are familiar to them. It also enables athletes and team >officials, who have TVs at the Olympic village to see the weather >information again in familiar to them units. Finally, it helps >introduce the American viewers to the metric system in weather, since it >is used in almost every country in the world besides the United States. > >Again, thanks! I hope that you will choose to continue (and possibly >even expand) use of metric units in your forecasts during the Olympics >and Paralympics, as well as after the Games are over. Fox 13 has always >had an innovative flavor to it, and this will definitely be another >positive point on your 'innovation scoreboard'. Thanks again for your >great work. > >Best regards, > >Nikolay O. Malyarov _____________________________________________________________ KSTU/FOX 13 http://www.fox13.com
