Hello All, I just bought an NOAA weather radio (see the NOAA weather radio service page here: http://205.156.54.206/nwr/ ).
The computer voice that gives the weather reports is programmed from typed-in text, I believe. The reports use FFU, *but* the reports are brief enough (1 - 2 minutes) that the NOAA could begin a metric transition by having alternating metric/FFU reports. Since they collect their weather data in metric, I'm sure they'd love to be relieved of the task of converting everything from metric to FFU. Does anyone here have any contacts at the NOAA? This would be a simple and relatively painless way to start getting the public used to metric weather reports. The radio "weatherbot" could even sing the four-line Celsius ditty between reports to get people familiar with Celsius. -- Jason
