There probably aren't many users, but NWS offers a good metric units weather 
page if you ask:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.60060908689335&lon=-83.2818603515625&site=dtx&smap=1&unit=1&lg=en&FcstType=text
 
Near the bottom of the page, several links are given, one lets you switch to 
English units, or back to metric.  I believe this option is available on all 
their "point forecast" pages but I obviously haven't checked them all.
 
So what we REALLY need is more people using the metric page.
--- On Wed, 1/18/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
wrote:


From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:51411] Canada far ahead of us in use of metric .... a reminder
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 2:45 AM



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i didn't realize Huffington Post had a Canadian edition. But I was certainly 
struck by the way they report the big snowstorm heading to BC:

  
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/17/vancouver-weather-storm-canada-snow_n_1211182.html?ref=canada

Note also how they mention Seattle and translate the info from the National 
Weather Service (from what must have been US Customary) into metric.

If only we were as far along as they are both with weather reports and with 
road signs ....

-- Ezra

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