Here in San Francisco, we are lucky if we get much past 15C in the summer. I don't think I could deal with 40C!
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at 01:06PM, Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><<Original Attached>>Where I live 40C in the summertime is not uncommon at all but 50C certainly is :). At least it's a dry heat with no humidity.
Mike
On 4/25/06, Pat Naughtin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear All,
For those who don't know the degree Celsius rhyme, the one I use in
Australia is:
Zero is freezing, 10 is not.
20 is pleasing, 30 is hot.
40 frying, 50 dying.
My niece, who lives in the semi-desert regions of Australia, experienced a
week last summer when the temperature was in the 40s every day and reached
48 °C on one day. So the reference to '50 dying' is not inappropriate here.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.metricationmatters.com
On 26/04/06 2:58 AM, "James Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Remek,
>
> That is excellent! Now, how hard would it be for our schools to do that. Have
> you considered asking your son's teacher if she would like for you to come in
> and do something like that in class?
>
> A few years ago I taught kindergartners the Celsius rhyme ("30 is hot, ...).
> And they knew what it was for because we talked about temperature. I related
> that to what they would wear to school, as you did with your son.
>
> Jim
>
> On Friday 21 April 2006 11:45, Remek Kocz wrote:
>> My 6-year-old has been fascinated by the thermometer lately, so I took that
>> as an opportunity to teach him Celsius. He wants to know each morning
>> which jacket to put on for school, so depending on how many degrees the
>> thermometer reads, we pick either a winter or a spring jacket. As it
>> happens, we started when the morning temps were around 0C, and now we're up
>> to 10-15C, so it's really perfect time to give him a very practical sense
>> of reading a thermometer. He already knows that snow won't stay around if
>> the temps are above 0C, and that it's t-shirt weather when we go around
>> 18C. It's a wonderful thing to be able to teach this to one's kids, and I
>> do gain another sense of appreciation of the sheer elegance of centigrade.
>>
>> We're also working on meters, since he started bringing feet from school.
>> Right now it's just kiddie banter like "giants are a million feet tall,"
>> but I may as well head off the USC pollution early. So, he learned that he
>> is a meter and a quarter tall, that a meter is as long as dad stretching
>> out his arms or as tall as he is to the shoulder. Easy enough. Then I
>> estimated the height of our house at 10 m, the trees in the backyard at 20
>> m, and told him that the clouds are up at 2000 m.
>>
>> Remek
>>
>> On 4/21/06, Howard Ressel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I called my 13 yr old son with a favor the other day (home alone on
>>> spring break). Asked him to get a tape measure from my toolbox and
>>> measure the length of a fluorescent bulb so I could get a new one at
>>> lunch. I have several tape measures, one in English, on in metric and
>>> several in dual - he could have taken any of them. Without me prompting
>>> he read me the length as 300. I said is that millimeters he said yes.
>>>
>>> Next I went to the store to find the bulb figuring id be looking for a
>>> 12" long bulb. To my surprise and delight I found what I needed on the
>>> shelf, only one choice. It was at Home Depot (do not remember the brand)
>>> and it was labeled as 30 cm with no English units.
>>>
>>> Al in all a very metrically illuminating experience for the day.
>>>
>>> Howard Ressel
>>> Project Design Engineer, Region 4
>>> (585) 272-3372
