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

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