Ah, yes, but they do sort of bury it by forcing you to switch to Text Only mode (hidden away at the bottom of the page) before you can get to the link (again, by scrolling all the way to the bottom) to switch to Imperial units. So, a way exists to get a way from metric but I didn't see a way to make it "stick" from one session to the next. If that's true, it's a nice way of discouraging Imperial. ;-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> To: "ezra steinberg" <[email protected]>, "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:08:50 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [USMA:46777] Canadians seem to have nailed metrication when it comes to weather Environment Canada operates this website. I'm not sure if the city (Windsor, Ontario) is embedded in the url, or a cookie. They source the Canadian data to the various newspapers and media outlets, just as NWS does in the US. They are proper metric, although I believe you can set conversion preferences by reading help file. http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/on-94_metric_e.html From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 7:50:25 PM Subject: [USMA:46777] Canadians seem to have nailed metrication when it comes to weather I just happened to check out an article in the Vancouver (Canada) Sun online and noticed the link for the current weather, so I thought I'd have a look. You can choose many different countries and cities within each country, so I tried where I live (Seattle area): http://www.vancouversun.com/weather/index.html?rg=us&city=seattle I notice that everything is given in proper SI (except for wind speed, which is in km/h rather than m/s, but I'll take it anyway, especially since they use the proper syntax instead of some monstrosity like "kph"), including the use of kPa for barometric pressure. And there is no option I could find to switch to Imperial! I've seen Canadian national weather reports on the CBC and the story is the same --- not a whisper of Imperial anywhere. If only the USA were anywhere close to this! Cheers, Ezra
