That portion of their webpage did not exist when I spent some time
talking to them. That's a good catch, Michael!
My conversations with Wunderground were well over 10 years ago. We
worked on getting spaces between numbers and units, using the proper
units, etc. It took awhile for them to belie
Jim Frysinger mentioned previously talking to Wunderground about their metric
page. I've just figured out why my station has so little rain, the 0,12 inches
converts to 0,3 mm instead of 3 mm. Has anyone still got an email contact to
get this rectified. Wunderground by the way defaults to Wombat
On Friday 01 April 2011 12:32:03 Paul Rittman wrote:
> My main problem with the metric system is trying to use it
> in my daily life (I live in the southern California region in the United
> States). I don’t really have a problem
> with kilometers or liters, but with the shorter units of length th
Although interest here in "Maximum Allowable Variations" (MAV) has waned,
I finally did download the "latest" (2005) Edition to compare page numbers of
the tables of MAV with the older page numbers I gave from my outdated paper
copy.
The correct page numbers of tables of MAV (from the 2005 Editio
Paul:
May I echo James' welcome to this group. I'll keep my background simple. I'm
a retired quantity surveyor (construction cost consultant/economist), and lived
in Canada for 30 years before returning to my 'homeland' (UK) for personal
reasons. I was part of Canada's conversion to SI in th
Dear Paul,
It's good to hear from a fresh voice here! You bring an interesting
perspective to this group, with your background and fairly recent
approach to the metric system. I will give you my background to compare
to yours. That will show how my wife and I progressed to daily use of
metric
Rittmann, sir:
>.to continually tell myself, “I’m sitting 150 mm from the window,” or
>something like that, or that I’m 18,500 mm tall.
>.Any suggestions on ingraining the metric system in your personal life?
My childhood was spent at Lahore(Pakistan) and moved to Delhi, after partion of
I have been looking at the metric system for a couple of
years now. My primary reason for exploring it has been my continual frustration
with the bizarre medley of traditional imperial units—bushels, hogheads,
hundredweights, etc., as well as the various types of ounces. I teach history
at the col
Dear All,
I don't think tjat this is an April Fools Day joke -- but it should be.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/assembly-nixes-council-on-metric-system-119026244.html
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see
http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuid
