To all:
I just wanted to address a couple of things in one email.
1. My wife said that Channel 4 this evening gave the snow depth of the
expected snow storm (overnight and Friday morning) in cm as well ("1 to
3 inches of snow. That's 2.5 to 7.5 cm"). In fact, while typing this
email, I saw the same thing on the 10 o'clock news.
2. To Gene: When I referred to all other data in non-SI I meant any
other weather data used - pressure, wind speed, and even the current
temperatures. This evening they completely avoided any SI.
3. This afternoon while at the Olympic Village I saw the official
weather bulletins. Those are the ones that have tables and graphs for
every hour of the day. Needless to say, that all of them were in SI.
Yet, there were also verbal extended forecasts posted, and oh my. The
mix of units with no specific consistency reminded me of the current
situation with metrication in the U.S. One report would have cm and �C
only, another one would have some SI (ifp) and the rest in SI only.
There were a few with ifp only. Strange indeed!
Well, I am exhausted, so it's time to go to bed now. This has been a
truly exciting week so far. And with the Latvia-Austria game on
Saturday and Latvia-Slovakia game on Sunday, there is more excitement to
come.
Cheers,
Nikolay
