From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Stephen Humphreys'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [USMA:38672] RE: Reaction to the Telegraph
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:40:24 +0100
The official weather reports are those quoted by the Met Office
(http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/), not the tabloids. The met office uses
Celsius for temperature, millimeters for rainfall and a mixture of knots
and
m/s for wind speed.
The press, radio and television do not officially report the weather; they
buy their data from the Met Office (or some other source) and sometimes
convert it).
Question: Who do the met office report the weather to?
Answer: Those who report the weather to us.
I'm not aware of the met office ever broadcasting directly to the public.
And wind speed is always converted to mph whenever I have seen it on TV or
heard it on the radio.
I guess it's possible that some papers quote knots, or that the shipping
forecast uses knots but I've never seen/heard that myself.
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