Since when is 154 km/h equal to 155 mph? "The northern city of Trieste registered 154-kilometer-an-hour winds (155 mph)".
About the temperatures: they may use Weather Channel for weather-related items (don't they have acces to Italian and European meteorological agencies?) and then converted rational Fahrenheit to irrational Celsius. I am also very suspicious about what they call sub-zero. At the moment we have sub-zero temperatures, about -2 degrees Celsius with very light snow. I think that they mean sub-zero Fahrenheit! Would they have said 'sub-zero' if the temperature had been -15 degrees Celsius, which is above zero degrees Fahrenheit? Their mindset is totally wrong. I ask myself: when will they stop pandering to non-metric countries once and for all? On top of it many of their conversions are wrong. In the past their English news items were USC-only. They even targeted this rubbish at learners of English as a second or foreign language: English and ifp belong together. Some of us, I was one of them, got them to change their policy and now they use metric/FFU. Using the English language is enough accommodation. Death to ifp!!!!! BTW: Eurolines, the bus company with which I travel to Ireland every summer, has abandoned Weather Channel and changed to another agency that uses decent measuring units. I had contacted Eurolines about the units Weather Channel uses, got no answer, but recently I found the change on their site. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: kilopascal To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: [USMA:16633] Italy News 2001-12-14 OK, no more negative propaganda on the Euro. Just positive. Here is a positive story on the Euro gaining value The first article is of interest, as it is the first step to a stronger, more united Europe. I feel this is why the EU will not back down the next time to TABD demands against metric laws. By 2010, the EU will be strong enough to tell the TABD where to go. The third story is weird. -18.8�C is really -1.84�F. If they wanted to keep the same number of significant digits, they could have reported it that way. In reality, they could have reported the temperature as -19�C and been just as accurate. The way it was reported makes the fahrenheit look like the original value and the celsius a conversion. Some one goofed on the mph conversion. John <snip> SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES, ICY CONDITIONS ALL OVER ITALY Severe weather conditions in Italy paralyzed traffic yesterday. Italians were being discouraged from using their cars as the worst is yet to come, officials declared. Snow storms created traffic jams all over Italy's north, especially around Milan an on the Emilia-Romagna highways. In the South, patches of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway were iced over. Frozen electrical lines created a black-out in Milan's central train station and paralyzed train traffic for hours. Several airports had to close and the Turin airport registered delays of more than an hour. Mercury went down to polar levels in the region of Aldo Adige: the Resia Pass measured -18.8 C (-2 F). The northern city of Trieste registered 154-kilometer-an-hour winds (155 mph). Even Tuscany was not spared, and, in the region of Abruzzo, several schools closed.
