Jim,
What email address did you use to send this to the Salt Lake City television
weather reporter (at station KSL-TV)? I'd like to add my two cents' worth.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
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Keep It Simple!
Make It Metric!
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> Sir/Madam:
>
> When the 2002 Olympic come to Salt Lake City in a few months,
> there will be tens of thousands of people from other countries
> visiting here.
>
> Since the US is the ONLY country left in world that uses
> non-metric units, very few of those tens of thousands will have
> any idea what "40 degrees Fahrenheit" is, or what "inches of
> snow" means, or whether "10 mph wind speed" is fast or slow.
>
> Please consider putting metric equivalents into your forecasts
> (TV, web, radio), as a courtesy to these thousands of visitors.
> It will be a tremendous help to them, and it will help our
> citizens become more familiar with the measurement language the
> rest of the world uses, and which the US will eventually use.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim Elwell
> President
> QSI Corporation
> SLC, Utah
>
