On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Nikolay O. Malyarov wrote:
> ... Channel 4 this evening gave the snow depth ...
> "1 to 3 inches of snow. That's 2.5 to 7.5 cm".
Nikolay,
Please ask Channel 4 to polish (correct) their rounding.
Suggest "3 cm to 8 cm (1 to 3 inches)" since one significant digit
for new snow fall is completely sufficient because of wide variation.
Reporting of snow depth to an implied precision of 1 mm makes SI appear
foolish and insults the intelligence of foreign visitors.
> ... This evening they completely avoided any SI.
Sad!
> ... 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.
Excellent!
> Yet, there were also verbal extended forecasts posted,...
> 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...
Apparently the official bulletins are being posted by professionals, and
some of the forecasts are being converted by poorly trained journalists.
If you can find the time, please try to persuade the *forecasters*
to adopt the SI standards used in the bulletins.
Gene.
