I think I might have made a mistake - I was only referring to the physical newspaper - not it's online version.Sorry if that misled.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:47160] Re: Degrees Fahrenheit gone the way of the guinea? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:42:47 +0100 The online versions of those newspapers may well bot mention fahrenheit, but I'm afraid the Daily Mirror does in the actual newspaper. Strangely enough, the reports referring to the UK weather contained not a trace of fahrenheit, yet the reports for the temperature in countries abroad were a mixture of C and F. Quite bizarre!! ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 9:32 PM Subject: [USMA:47151] Degrees Fahrenheit gone the way of the guinea? I heard on the BBC World Service last night about a location (which I missed) where the presenter said that the temperature in mid-April was already 45 degrees (no mention of "Celsius" even, just "degrees"). So, I poked around a few of the British papers online (Independent, Daily Mirror, Sun) as well as Sky News and could not find any mention of "Fahrenheit" anywhere (or even a way .. at least not an obvious one that I could find! ... to change the temps display from Celsius to Fahrenheit. In fact, the Mirror also gave wind speed in "kph". (Yes, yes, it should be "km/h", but I'm thrilled that a paper like the Mirror has managed to dump wind speeds in "mph" given that all speed limits are currently displayed on roads in "mph" .... I presume the Met gives the wind speed in "km/h" and the Mirror has simply not bothered to "dumb down" the values. So, it seems that Fahrenheit temps have gone the way of the guinea, the shilling, and the farthing. Why isn't anyone citicizing the Labour Party for not having "saved the Fahrenheit for Britain"? I also see from those papers that there is a new poll out showing that the Lib-Dems have pulled ahead of Labour and the Tories. Wouldn't that be a "kick in the pants" (as we say) if the Lib-Dems could form the next government? -- Ezra _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now
