Dear Jerry,
All the original data was measured in metric units, recorded in metric
units, communicated in metric units, and then dumbed down by the Yahoo
journalist presumably because the journalist is catering to those he
or she regards as the retarded people in the UK and in the USA who
can't cope with 17th century progress. You might like to listen to the
streaming of the fire emergency radio radio station at http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne
for a few minutes where all official measuring is reported in metric
units - only.
Dear Martin and Harry,
Thanks for your thoughts. It will be a hard time for us as we recover
from this disaster.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
70 kilometres from the nearest fire
On 2009/02/09, at 3:55 AM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
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
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
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