George--
I still believe in springtime--although sometimes it is hard.
White Weather forecase for tomorrow night into Monday.
my attire for chopping up driveway ice this afternoon was a t-shirt and jeans.
57 degrees never felt so damn good...
grrrrrrrr, we started the morning at 22 and managed to climb all the way to 24 by mid-afternoon.
10 degrees this morning. I didn't expect that.
I wish they'd de-ice our block.
60°F now, this morning at 8 o'clock it was 43°F.
Walter Hinteler wrote:60°F now, this morning at 8 o'clock it was 43°F.
Walter, have you given up trying to use Celsius with us 'Mericans?
Well, you wouldn't be surprised that it is 12° at 7:20 am on a Monday morning, I think.
But 54°F should make you jealous.
(No, I'm trying to get a "feeling" for written Fahrenheit temperatures since I noticed last your that those tempartures come as a surprise when leaving the hotel. :wink: )
The one thing I absolutely can't wrap my mind around are Fahrenheit temperatures. I have no problem with understanding gallons, yards, miles, stones, inches, bob, or how Americans tip at restaurants.
But Fahrenheit is just beyond ridiculous. How do you people do it?
Easy. 100 degrees Fahrenheit is hot.
That's how it works? Who would have known....
for old europe :
Quote:Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), who proposed it in 1724.
In this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (written "32 °F"), and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and freezing points of water exactly 180 degrees apart. On the Celsius scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are exactly 100 degrees apart, thus the unit of this scale, a degree Fahrenheit, is 5⁄9 of a degree Celsius. Negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit (-40 °F) is equal to negative 40 degrees Celsius (-40 °C).
Quote:The Réaumur scale is a temperature scale named after René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who first proposed it in 1731. The freezing point of water is 0 degrees Réaumur, the boiling point 80 degrees Réaumur. Hence, a Reaumur degree is 1.25 Celsius degrees or kelvins. The Réaumur temperature scale is also known as the octogesimal division (division octogesimale in French).
Réaumur's thermometer was constructed on the principle of taking the freezing point of water as 0°, and graduating the tube into degrees each of which was one-thousandth of the volume contained by the bulb and tube up to the zero mark. It was the dilatability of the particular quality of alcohol employed which made the boiling point of water 80°. Mercurial thermometers, the stems of which are graduated into eighty equal parts between the freezing and boiling points of water, are not Réaumur thermometers in anything but name. Réaumur may have chosen the octogesimal division because the number 80 could be halved 4 times and still be an integer (40, 20, 10, 5); the number 100, for instance, could only suffer this process 2 times (50, 25).
The Réaumur scale saw widespread use in Europe, particularly in France and Germany (as well as Russia - as in works of Dostoyevsky), but was eventually replaced by the Celsius scale
anyone want to switch between those three scales :wink:
hbg
360 degrees should be boiling. You can halve it a bunch of times, third it a bunch of times -- you can even quarter it, fifth it, and sixth it (twice).
Those Sumerians (or whoever came up with the 360 degrees thing) knew what they were up to.
Course, with computers and what not, we've been pretty well decimalated...
old europe wrote:or how Americans tip at restaurants.
usually 15%, but often depends on the service...
Region Philbis wrote:old europe wrote:or how Americans tip at restaurants.
usually 15%, but often depends on the service...
Not sure how much time you've spent in the Bible Belt, reg, but this isn't really the case everywhere...
Region Philbis wrote:old europe wrote:or how Americans tip at restaurants.
usually 15%, but often depends on the service...
In comparison, that's a pretty easy one. I found it much more difficult when I, a mere lad back then, was reading "A Christmas Carol" and came across this sentence:
Charles Dickens, describing Bob Cratchit, wrote:he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name
Left me puzzled for days, I hafta say....
His having been paid by the word doesn't help Dickens's readability...
p'dog wrote:Not sure how much time you've spent in the Bible Belt, reg, but this isn't really the case everywhere...
next-to no time.
how does it work down thayuh?
a new Bahstin record low has just been set for march 6th: 7°F.
another arctic blast (hopefully the last) has settled in for the next couple of days...
Penn State Climate Center issued a long term forecast that says we will begin a moderating trend beginning this weekend and will be above avergae next week. Hang on
Its gotten cold in Oz. well by comparison to what it was. I think summer is over here
