Jerry,
Rest assured, the English or rather Imperial units are wrong. The reports came from Australia, so one can reasonably assume that the original reports were in metric units. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremiah MacGregor Sent: 08 February 2009 16:56 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42947] RE: Aussie fires http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090208/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires The link from Yahoo puts the English units first and the metric second. I think there are some conversion errors so I'm not sure which is correct, the English or the metric. Jerry From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 4:18:51 AM Subject: [USMA:42945] RE: Aussie fires [off topic] After I left this conference a few minutes ago (09:15 GMT), I visited the BBC website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/. The pictures of the Aussie bush-fires were horrific. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Wyeth Sent: 08 February 2009 08:12 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42944] Aussie fires I am sure we all send our sympathies to our Aussie friends, including Pat, for the terrible fires they are experiencing. And I see that their temps hit 47º--same as we had in Northern California two summers ago. If you have never been that hot--well, it is really, really hot. It made our swimming pool hit 34º at one point. Carry on, Mate. See: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090208/D9677UMO0.html <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090208/D9677UMO0.html> HARRY WYETH Pat Naughtin wrote: > Dear All, > > As I advised yesterday we were in for a hot dry day with low humidity > yesterday; the prediction was for 44 °C. It turned out that the > temperature at the Avalon airport near Geelong was the hottest place > in the state. The temperature there reached 46.9°C at 15:00 with winds > gusting between 10 km/h and 60 km/h. > See http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94854.shtml
