What's the subject?  Metric, of course.  Well actually, Tropical Storm 
Carlotta, expected to be a hurricane by Friday.
 
AP goes out of their way to change the the symbol for kilometers per hour 
(km/h) used by the National Hurricane Center to a wrong "kph" to help confuse 
readers who understand metric better than Customary. (Yes, guilty, I made the 
bitter comment which follows the article.)
http://news.yahoo.com/tropical-storm-carlotta-forms-pacific-south-mexico-expected-085210645.html
 
Reuters uses metric correctly, has a nice graphic, and even goes to the trouble 
of converting storm surge to metric (a suggestion I made to NHC which they 
apparently did not accept).
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/tropical-storm-carlotta-is-forecast-to-strike-mexico-as-a-hurricane-at-about-0000-gmt-on-16-june/
 
When the numbers count, you can count on AP to confuse you.

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