I attended a 2 hour weather spotter class up in Cookeville TN this
morning. Two meteorologists from the National Weather Service led the class.
One of them, new to the Nashville weather station, gave all atmospheric
elevations, distances, etc. in meters and kilometers without providing
any non-metric equivalents. Nobody asked for clarification. The other
meteorologist, the one who has been in the area for a longer time and
who is more senior, used nothing but non-metric indications and the same
was true of the slides that were presented. Both were under 40 years of
age, in my estimation. (Mere pups!)
I enjoyed the chance to hear metric units being used and to notice no
adverse effects from this on the audience.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
