National Metric Week is coming up soon. It is always the calendar week containing the date 10-10 (October 10th). This year that week is October 6 tp 12.
This year I have contacted all the local* TV weather reporters, plus The Weather Channel, suggesting that some** of their weather data should be reported in metric. I suggested that National Metric Week would be a good time to do this, with the hope that they would continue doing it after Metric Week was over. So far I have had a response from only one TV weather person. He said that it was I good idea and that he would try to do some. (He said this last year, too, but I saw no evidence that he actually did. However, I was away from home for that week so couldn't watch his program.) I thought some of you might be interested in using this idea in your area. Or perhaps you have done something that you could share with the rest of us. Regards, Bill Hooper physics professor (retired), Florida, USA *"Local" for me is the Jacksonville, Florida area. ** "Some" was changed to "some more" in a couple cases where they already did a little metric reporting (very little). ======================== Keep It Simple - Make It Metric! ========================
