For its public pages in metric, the National Weather Service uses
kilometers per hour. However, a lot of their raw data, which is used for
analysis, is in meters per second. I used meters per second as the unit
of choice in my research on sea breezes for my master's thesis.
In the US, people are used to miles per hour being used. I think it
would be easier for them to make the transition to kilometers per hour
than to meters per second.
I see that BBC and the UK Met Office publish wind speeds in miles per
hour, for which they use "mph".
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stoney Point Mountain Road
Doyle TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2014-04-07 21:00, Natalie wrote:
'Meters per second' is used in Russia to report wind speed in weather
forcast. That helped me to visualize it when i was a kid.(like leaves
would be moving 5 meters on count 'one and')
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-------- Original message --------
From: Brian White
Date:2014/04/07 15:49 (GMT-05:00)
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Subject: [USMA:53691] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike
Never understood everyone's fascination with m/s.
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From: James <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: 4/7/2014 12:57
To: U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:53690] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike
No, that is not an option, Gene. I'm happy with kilometers per hour.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stoney Point Mountain Road
Doyle TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2014-04-07 11:24, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
> Jim (Frysinger),
>
> For recumbent cycling, I would prefer setting the spedometer to
meters per second.
>
> Is that an option?
>
> Gene
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf
of James [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:00 PM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:53678] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike
>
> One oddity noted on this recumbent bike:
> The speed reads out numerically with the unit symbol km/h. But the
> distance reads out numerically with the unit symbol KM.
>
> Jim
>
>
> --
> James R. Frysinger
> 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road
> Doyle TN 38559-3030
>
> (C) 931.212.0267
> (H) 931.657.3107
> (F) 931.657.3108
>
> On 2014-04-02 12:55, James wrote:
>> We took delivery of our new Schwinn 270 recumbent bike two days ago.
>> Purchasing from Amazon.com gave us a price well below MSRP. Assembly
>> took a few hours but I did not rush it; probably I could have done it in
>> 2 h. In a few of the steps, my wife provided a spare set of hands which
>> was essential.
>>
>> The fasteners are all metric. The console's program allows the user to
>> select miles or kilometer in its setup sequence. (One can change it
>> later, and old data gets converted.) Of course, I chose kilometers. I
>> was pleasantly surprised to see, when entering user profile data, that
>> the program then asked for height in centimeters and mass (they called
>> it weight) in kilograms.
>>
>> I would rate this machine 4.9 out of 5 stars so far. The embedded
>> heart-rate monitor (working off contacts in the hand grips) appears to
>> double-count the pulse. We have not yet tried the MP3 player connection,
>> the USB data download port, or the resistance programs (varying
>> resistance as a function of time in emulation of terrain topography).
>> The machine is extremely quiet if the fan is off. And it is not at all
>> noisy.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
>
