Exactly. That is how I have been doing it for years. Fortunately, with
the availability of digital weather instruments for the home (thermometer,
hygrometer, barometer), which can be set to metric units, you learn
quickly to think metric. Now I have to do a "reverse-think" when I hear
television weather broadcasts in degrees Fahrenheit.
Although Fox News uses millibars for atmospheric pressure, CNN actually
clings to inches of mercury. When I heard 28.3, I didn't have a clue.
1000 millibars (100 kilopaschals) for average pressure is such a nice
round number.
I have noticed another encouraging development. I many instances now I
speak to people in metric units, particularly meters and degrees Celsius.
I have discovered that average people are generally familiar with them.
Millimeters are such a convenient unit for small lengths that I notice
people are using them more frequently, particularly as things like
automobile screws are now in millimeters.
Martin Morrison
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Yesterday, a co-worker stuck his iPhone in my face and said,
"This is the weather where my father-in-law lives." The iPhone weather
app was open to a city on Long Island, New York. All the temperatures were
in the 30s. MY first thought was, "Wow! How did it get that warm there in
January?" Then, I caught myself (in the wrong direction, of course). My
app is set to Celsius, and I've been reading all temperatures in Celsius
for years. I made it---I knew that I was "thinking hard Celsius."
Paul Trusten
