Similar to what I do this time of year. In talking to others, the temperature's either "above freezing", "freezing", "below freezing", or "well below freezing", which covers the range -10 to 5. Whether someone wants to view "freezing" as 0°C or 32°F is their choice.
Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Humphreys Sent: Thursday, 2006 January 19 4:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:35741] RE: Forecast without using units > >Joe Bastardi is a U.S. weather forecaster; he gives long range >forecasts also for Europe. It is interesting that he does not use any >measuring units, "Joe Bastardi" What a great name! Your point echos - to some degree - what I was thinking on my drive to work this morning. Radio 1 (from the BBC) don't use units at all in the weather forecast - not even numbers. They've settled on "very cold", "Cold", "mild" etc etc. One wonders if they got fed up with people asking for "Just celsius" and other people asking for "Celsius and Fahrenheit" all the time and decided to use descriptives instead?
