You bring up two items I had almost forgotten about. Here in the UK some pools say C & F and some day just C Also when talking about a fever - I've heard people talking about 'running a 104 degree temperature' etc. Cars tend to have a C&F switch on UK models - although some don't (my Honda does not). With forecast temps - F gets rarer the colder it gets. However, see what happens when we get our predicted heat wav! ;-)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:01:32 -0400 Subject: [USMA:47186] Re: Fw: Degrees Fahrenheit gone the way of the guinea? From: [email protected] CC: [email protected] To: [email protected] And Canada and Belize. In Canada, as I've seen it myself, pool temperatures are in Fahrenheit, and as I've been told, the sacrosanct package of body dimensions (pounds, feet/inches) includes degrees F for fevers. Belize apparently still uses F for ambient temps, per Wikipedia. But it's good to see that F is on its way out in the UK. Remek On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:09 PM, John Frewen-Lord <[email protected]> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: John Frewen-Lord To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:47151] Degrees Fahrenheit gone the way of the guinea? Even the British Murdoch-controlled newspapers, which resolutely give all dimensions in imperial units (even those obviously converted from metric values), give temperatures in degrees Celsius. Canadian media (and the general population) also use Celsius, never a mention of Fahrenheit. Degrees F are now only found in the US. John F-L ----- 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/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now
