This would make it far too simple!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 01 September 2007 10:10
Subject: [USMA:39311] Re: All metric story from the BBC
In this context, the oil industry talks about the density of oil in an
oil-bearing rock in units of "barrels per acre-foot". If they used SI,
they
could express the oil density as a percentage (eg - "The rock in that
oil-well contains 15% oil").
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of STANLEY DOORE
Sent: 01 September 2007 10:36
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:39310] Re: All metric story from the BBC
The meteorological community worldwide under the World Meteorological
Organization is all metric internally within each country, including the
United States as well. It's the presentation of weather info to the
public
which differs. The US has not understood that the SI is a coherent system
of measurement and units or else it would have converted to the SI for
weather for the public.
The example of coherence I like to use is rainfall where 1 mm of rain
in
one square metre equals 1 L of water which weighs 1 kg; and therefore,
1000
mm of rainfall = 1000 L or 1 kL = cubic metre and weighs one metric
tonne (1 t).
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Ezra <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steinberg
To: U.S. Metric <mailto:[email protected]> Association
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:50 AM
Subject: [USMA:39308] All metric story from the BBC
Funny .... here's a story from today's BBC online web site that's all
metric.
I never know what to expect! (But I'm glad it was all metric. :-)
Ezra
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Record rains for British summer
BBC
This summer appears to have been the wettest since rainfall records began
in
1914, according to provisional data from the UK Meteorological Office.
Britain had 358.5mm of rain, just beating the 1956 record of 358.4mm.
The main reason for the high rainfall has been the unusually southerly
position of the jet stream, a band of strong winds high in the atmosphere.
Following earlier floods in central and southern England, five areas of
the
country are still on flood alert.
The record rainfall was driven by conditions in England, where the
downpour
surpassed all other recorded years by a substantial margin.
The record years for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively
remain 1958, 1985 and 1927.
The figures are preliminary and may be revised at a later date.
Summer of disappointment
"These figures confirm what most people have already been thinking - this
summer has been very wet and very disappointing for most," said Keith
Groves, the Met Office's head of forecasting.
While it has been wet, the summer has been distinctly average in terms of
temperature.
June, July and August saw a mean temperature of 14.1C, almost exactly the
average for summers since the 1970s.
The jet stream, a ribbon of very strong winds about 10km up in the
atmosphere which brings weather systems to the UK, has been much further
south and stronger than usual this summer.
This has brought depressions across many parts of the country.
Environment Agency flood watch warnings are in force for north Devon,
Christchurch harbour near Bournemouth, the Mersey estuary, north Norfolk,
and the coast between Bristol and Exmoor.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6971328.stm
