over the ton?

Martin · Post: # 26839Post **Martin** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:33 am

are we running a book on whether the temperature exceeds the magic 100 degree fahrenheit mark today? - so far we've got to 88.7 in the shade! 8)

Martin · Post: # 26865Post **Martin** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:46 pm

91.4 and rising!

Chickpea · Post: # 26867Post **Chickpea** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:54 pm

Where are you measuring? In east Sussex? Could do then. Round here people keep moaning about the heat, but when I ask them if they're going on holiday this year they say "Oh yes we've booked a week in Malta" or whatever.

Martin · Post: # 26868Post **Martin** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:00 pm

12 miles inland from the costa del sussex! 8)

Andy Hamilton · Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:06 pm

Sorry but I think in new money for temperature is that about 35?

Martin · Post: # 26876Post **Martin** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:14 pm

thereabouts! - sorry, I grew up with real understandable measurements!

It's about the only bit of good US influence - you can still get thermometers in English!

Andy Hamilton · Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:21 pm

I have a strange one for measurements as my parents used imperial and my schools metric. I can now think in metric for small weights for cooking, imperial for people, but only in stone, imperial for height and distance. although I am getting the hang of kilometers for cycling. for short measurments I use centimeters and for temperature metric apart from in cooking as I can use both.

Martin · Post: # 26881Post **Martin** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:24 pm

never forget when we "went metric" - one day, you went and bought a 14' length of 2"x2" - the next day it was 50mmx50mm - in 14 foot lengths!

Cheezy · Post: # 26887Post **Cheezy** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:03 pm

OK Andy has hit one of my main irretations right on the head.

I will apologise up front for the rant , and I put this down to some sort of scientific training BUT:

Why do people feel it necessary to use bloody fahrenheit during the summer but then switch to celcius during winter!.

It's inconsistent , and annoying. If you feel the need to say "it's in the ninties or we're topping a hundred", then you should also be saying by God it's a freezing 27'F !!, and not going around Oh it's cold it's minus 3.

I blame the weather people, because they never mention Fahrenheit during the winter, and in fact it doesn't get a look in until the temperature gets around 16'C when they start adding a..." and thats 61'F

Yes I know it's to do with human nature....BUT STOP IT NOW!

P.S I have nothing against Fahrenheit, it's a perfectly useable scale. It's just that it went out with decimalisation, and if your going to quote it in the summer then you should in the winter.

Ah that feels better,got a bit heated topped a hundred......DOH!.

Millymollymandy · Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:37 pm

Oooooooh, he's a bit cross isn't he?

Funnily enough, whilst I can do heat in Centigrade, if I want to be absolutely precise, I can understand it better in Fahrenheit.

However, I don't do cold in Fahrenheit at all. Don't understand a thing below 50F.

I think it's because I only really experienced cold when I went to live in the Netherlands, and got to 'know' what the different minus C temps felt like.

When Americans talk about minus 20 (F) I have no idea what they are on about - is that cold or what?

Shirley · Post: # 27085Post **Shirley** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:26 pm

I use C rather than F - although seem to recall arguments in the past as to whether it should be celsius or centigrade! http://www.dandantheweatherman.com/Bere ... elsius.htm

Cheezy · Post: # 27163Post **Cheezy** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:18 am

Millymollymandy wrote: When Americans talk about minus 20 (F) I have no idea what they are on about - is that cold or what?

-20'F is -29'C which is VERY cold! your freezer works at around -18'C!!!

Millymollymandy · Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:07 pm

See, I can't do it! I can't even guesstimate. It's a bit like talking metric or euros to my mum or mother in law.

ina · Post: # 27204Post **ina** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:53 pm

I grew up with metric, of course - had to learn all the other stuff over the years. I'm quite comfortable using miles - after all, that's what you get on all the roadsigns. HOWEVER, I've never learned what is the freezing and the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit... It's soooo much easier to remember 0 and 100!

What I find quite amusing is the dual brain function of all my scientist friends. Whereas they do all their research in metric - no problem, after all they want to be internationally accepted in the science community - that part of the brain seems to switch off as soon as they leave the office. Tell them a recipe for cake needs 250ml of milk, and they have no idea whether that's half a pint or two pints. Whereas at work they measured 12.3mm of rain, they privately tell you it rained almost half an inch...

Btw, I've got the feeling we are heading for the hottest day yet around here today. 20.8 degree Celsius at 10 already, and it's been getting hotter since! But we had the first rain yesterday for the last 11 days - 0.1mm...

Millymollymandy · Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:37 am

I know that I do this, and I apologise if it annoys anyone, but I mix up metric and imperial in my postings. Sometimes I do it because I'm thinking of the folk in the UK who'll be thinking in feet and inches and sometimes I'm thinking of the Aussies who are metric and have probably never learned (or needed to learn) imperial.

But mostly it's just me, rounding up to the nearest 6" or 15cm or whatever! Sorry.