I often read John Grisham. I realise that he is an American, writing for an American audience, but it still takes me by surprise when he writes "The temperature was in the low thirties and a chilly breeze ...". To me, the low thirties is a hot day! However, when he writes "With the temperature in the eighties ...", I have no trouble in realizing that he is using Fahrenheit.
In fairness to him, he used kilometers and km/h in his book "The Broker" when the main character was traveling in Italy. He also gently introduced his readers to the Euro when his principal character's minder gave him a handful of Euros and told "One Euro is about a dollar". Weights never entered his book, but he did miss a trick when his main character was walking the streets of an Italian city on a winter morning and the text refers to the temperature as being in the "low thirties". His character could have caught sight of a thermometer which was reading "-1°C" and which our "hero" converted to "Just below freezing - that would be thirty degrees back home". -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: 18 December 2007 03:59 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:39900] Re: Metric Weather On Monday 17 December 2007 21:07, Carleton MacDonald wrote: > I just downloaded it and it's been done. Nice. > > Only other thing would be to take a look at the symbolic thermometer, which > goes from -20 to +100, and size it for Celsius if that option is chosen, > perhaps something like -30 to +50. There is another thing. I clicked on the 7-day forecast and got a map below the forecast, labeled "Current Temps", in which North Carolina is 33 and South Carolina is 32. Those are typical summer temperatures here. I just walked home from work and there are ice sparkles on the grass, and the high tomorrow is 12. The hourly forecast still says "kph" and puts a space between "°" and "C", which shouldn't be there. The temperatures on the 7-day forecast omit the "C". The box labeled "Your Forecast for Charlotte, NC" below the hourly gets the symbol right. Pierre
