As well as newspapers, TV and people the "summer destination" holiday
brochures in the holiday stores tend to use deg F too.
That "changover point" is interesting - mine tends to be 10/50 but the
media, newspapers, etc etc tend to do it around 70F.
Interestingly - 2 yrs back when we had 104F the "c" version got dropped
altogether. I guess the "100 mark" might have something to do with that.
Its -2 tonight, btw - a little scraping required tomorrow morning!! ;-)
From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [USMA:35334] RE: thinking Celsius outdoors
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:31:58 -0000
It always amazes me that the British public put up with the media using
Fahrenheit in their headlines for high summer temperatures and Celsius for
low winter temperatures - but I suppose that it adds to the sensational
nature of the some of the comics that grace our streets masquerading as
newspapers. Often the people who buy them (particularly those who buy "The
Sun") are interested only in the "Page 3 Girl" (for the benefit of US
readers who have never been to the UK, the "Page 3 Girl" is usually topless
and is well-endowed).
Of course, anybody who actually uses temperatures in their everyday work
would consider it stupid to mix Fahrenheit and Celsius in the way that
Steve
has described - if only because handling the change-over point causes
problems.
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From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: [USMA:35334] RE: thinking Celsius outdoors
> I get the reverse situation (its a common condition for Brits!)
> Lower temperatures I prefer in deg C whereas higher ones "feel more apt"
in
> deg F.
>
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