I've been swapping email with the weatherman on my favorite TV station down
here in Charleston for the last several days on the subject of using metric
units in the weather forecasts. I won't labor you all with the details, but
he's starting to put some bits in here and there.
Tonight he included temperatures in Celsius in tonight's Olympic forecast for
the Salt Lake City area. I reminded him that the positioning of the space
was not as most people had grown accustomed to seeing and complimented him on
his progress.
He has just replied:
"Thanks Jim.....I will see if we can't fix that. I need to talk to our guy
who types in the data....I do have to admit that using the metric seems more
natural every day.."
Last Saturday, my favorite local columnist included a news item about a man
in India who has just been added to the Guiness Book of Records for having
the longest ear hair. She checked with me the day before on her conversion
from centimeters to inches, but nothing needed changing. (Must have been that
metric training session I gave her a couple of years ago, and which I
reported here.) So, she wrote that the hair measured
"... 10.2 centimeters (four inches)."
I was pleased that she didn't convert this to inches and drop the metric
measurement, which was the info that she had been given.
Getting there....
Jim
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James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston
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