Or, they just decided to tell that one bit of the AP Stylebook "you're wrong, go pound sand."
Carleton From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John M. Steele Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:34 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:51001] CNN uses "km/h." Accident or new policy? An earlier (today) article on Tropical Storm Irene used kph. Now they are using km/h for wind speed and storm speed. Intentional, or assigned the article to the new guy? Who knows. I like it. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/08/21/tropical.weather/index.html?hpt =hp_t2 At 11 a.m. ET, Irene was about 235 miles (375 km) east-southeast of Puerto Rico, heading west-northwest at about 20 mph (32 km/h), the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Its top winds were 50 mph, (80 km/h), according to forecasters.
